🫀 TREE 185: You can upgrade your beliefs

Let’s review.

Monday: You can only believe what you believe. Other equally good, intelligent and thoughtful people believe the opposite to you.

Tuesday: There’s something deeper about you than your beliefs that determines if your beliefs take you in a healthy or unhealthy direction.

Wednesday: Where you are headed and whether you are moving is more important than where you are now.

Thursday: You can think about and interrogate your thoughts.

Now.

You can upgrade your beliefs – any of your beliefs, not just the existential ones – when you encounter new evidence. There’s a good chance that your beliefs are wrong because Monday. Changing your beliefs won’t change or destroy the realest you because Tuesday. When you are moving forward (Wednesday) you encounter new things in new territory. Your beliefs will need to change to account for your larger world. You have the ability to change your beliefs because Thursday.

End note.

Changing your beliefs to account for new evidence does not make you unstable.

Which is more stable:

• beliefs that rest on the best available evidence

• beliefs that only change once the foundation beneath them has been destroyed and they collapse

?

1. Riff

I wrote a longer thing with some of my own story about believing and then believing something different.

2. Five invitations

Speaking of change, there’s a new social media platform in town called Faves. It’s kind of like the ugly child of TikTok, Twitter and Pinterest. It’s fun though. The best thing about it right now is it’s small enough that you can be discovered. You need an invitation to bypass the waiting list. I have five. If you are trying to put a good thing out into the world and you’re struggling to get traction, give me a shout. I’ll give you an invitation.

3. Something for the weekend

I loved We are Lady Parts! It’s a six-part comedy about an all-woman Muslim punk band. It’s very funny, has great characters with some depth, it’s visually creative and has a great soundtrack. If you are not in the UK, you can watch it on Peacock (US), Stack TV or Global TV App (Canada), Stan (Australia), or hopefully some other streaming service (everywhere else).

Enjoy!
Jeff

Arriving at the last minute, to rescue us from a complete oldies week, it’s Baby Queen! In my opinion, she’s writing the catchiest cleverest pop in the world right now.

The Memory of TREE playlist – every song from every email: