️ 1 Why “we are wrong about everything”?
We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection. And because you and I and everybody else all have differing needs and personal histories and life circumstances, we will all inevitably come to differing “correct” answers about what our lives mean and how they should be lived.
️ 2 What caused “false memory syndrome”?
Our mind’s biggest priority when processing experiences is to interpret them in such a way that they will cohere with all of our previous experiences, feelings, and beliefs. Repressed memory therapy then acted as a means to pull these unconscious desires out and put them into a seemingly tangible form of a memory.
3 How to be a little less certain of yourself? Please include a personal example.
Questioning ourselves and doubting our own thoughts and beliefs is one of the hardest skills to develop. But it can be done. Here are some questions that will help you breed a little more uncertainty in your life.
(1)what if I am wrong?
(2)what would it mean if I were wrong?
(3)would being wrong create a better or a worse problem than my current problem, for both myself and others?
Words and expressions
1. But since the engagement, my friend’s brother has been admonishing her nonstop about her immature life choice.
admonish: to tell someone severely that they have done something wrong
造句: The teacher admonished the students against smoking.
2. We must intellectually strip them away, see their faults and biases, see how they don’t fit in with much of the rest of the world, to stare our own ignorance in the face and concede, because our own ignorance is greater than us all.
concede: to admit that something is true or correct, although you wish it were not true
造句: This dictionary is generally conceded to be the best in China.
3. and as I grow older and more experienced, I chip away at how wrong I am, becoming less and less wrong every day.
chip away: to gradually make something less effective or destroy it
4. Some of the best and most gratifying experiences of our lives are also the most distracting and demotivating.
gratify: gives you pleasure or satisfaction.
造句: Your good marks gratify me very much.
Reflection
No matter how honest and well-intentioned we are, we’re in a perpetual state of misleading ourselves and others for no other reason than that our brain is designed to be efficient, not accurate.
If we want to be a little less certain of ourselves, then whenever we find something or someone being screwed up, we should try to ask ourselves what if we are wrong and figure out the causes and solutions if we are wrong.
