👺 TREE 666: Look! This post about changing your beliefs is a scary number

TREEpeat 185

Let’s start with a quick review of four past posts.

1. Yesterday, I posted that you can only believe what you believe. Other equally good, intelligent and thoughtful people believe the opposite to you.

2. I wrote in the TREE introductory series that there’s something deeper about you than your beliefs that determines if your beliefs take you in a healthy or unhealthy direction.

3. I’ve written that where you are headed and whether you are moving is more important than where you are now.

4. On Monday I posted an odd little internal monologue about how 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 1. Changing your beliefs won’t change or destroy the realest you because 2. When you are moving forward, 3, 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 4.

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

What 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

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‘We’re all in the same big boat.’ —The Police, One World (Not Three), Synchronicity concert 183. (Embedding is disabled on this video. You have to go to YouTube to watch it.)

Grow slowly
Jeff