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What’s the role of certainty and doubt in your life? How do these opposing forces shape your beliefs and decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book Being Wrong<\/em>, Kathryn Schulz explores the continuum between certainty and doubt. She argues that we often default to certainty more than we know. She provides helpful insights into the necessity and dangers of our core beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to understand how certainty and doubt serve us in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Certainty and Doubt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How tightly we cling to any given belief falls somewhere on the spectrum between certainty and doubt. Schulz argues that certainty is the default position for more of our beliefs than we realize, and, while that\u2019s necessary for us to get through the day, it carries inherent dangers that only the discomfort of doubt can assuage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be certain about the basic rules of life is more than a comfort, it\u2019s a necessity.<\/strong> Consider how many beliefs we take so much for granted that we don\u2019t even think of them as beliefs. We\u2019re sure that an object will fall if we drop it. We\u2019re sure that the sun will come up in the morning. We\u2019re sure we need food and water to survive. Schulz explains that our whole understanding of the world is built on a framework of beliefs so fundamental that it wouldn\u2019t make sense to doubt any of them. How could you function for a moment if you doubted that gravity works or that you need air to breathe? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Schulz presents our most basic beliefs as questions of fact, such as air and gravity, but how these beliefs take root may go beyond simple matters of factual accuracy. In Maps of Meaning<\/em><\/a>, Jordan Peterson argues that subjective experience is more important to the mind than objective observation<\/a>. In other words, in our everyday lives, we don\u2019t think of gravity as a physical law, but in terms of how we experience its effects and how we behave in response. Furthermore, in The Art of Thinking Clearly<\/em><\/a>, Rolf Dobelli asserts that accepting our most basic beliefs is a biological imperative<\/a> that\u2019s been programmed into us by evolution itself. After all, as Schulz herself makes clear, doubt can be a poor survival strategy.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schulz says that certainty gets us into trouble because many core beliefs are tightly wrapped up in our sense of identity<\/strong>\u2014such as the belief that our tribe will protect us and therefore we owe it our allegiance in return. Anything that calls such a belief into question feels like a personal attack. We instinctively double down on being certain instead of giving in to the discomfort of doubt, so if someone suggests that our core beliefs are wrong, we stop listening and deny the other person\u2019s views. We tell them they\u2019re misinformed, or stupid, or worse. When the threat of doubting our core beliefs is existential<\/em>, we may even decide the other person is evil and out to destroy all that\u2019s good in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Whereas Schulz presents doubting core beliefs as a source of existential dread that closes your mind to new perspectives, motivational experts often advise changing core beliefs as a path toward success. In Awaken the Giant Within<\/em><\/a>, Tony Robbins says you should identify which of your core beliefs are harmful and formulate new beliefs to take their place<\/a>. Likewise, in Atomic Habits<\/em><\/a>, James Clear asserts that identity is just a point of view that evolves over time, and that because of this, you can choose whatever identity you want by challenging old beliefs and adopting new ones<\/a>. Both Robbins and Clear\u2019s approaches involve shifting from \u201cwrong\u201d to \u201cright\u201d in incremental steps so as not to be daunting or painful.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When confronted with someone else\u2019s blind certainty, it\u2019s easy to see where absolute faith in your beliefs can fall short, but it\u2019s hard to recognize that same failing in ourselves. Sometimes we admire doubt in other people, such as when someone admits that they were wrong, though often we view doubt as a sign of weakness. The truth is that doubt provokes anxiety, which is why we find certainty so appealing.<\/strong> Schulz writes that people who wear their doubt on their sleeve, such as undecided voters or religious agnostics, make others uncomfortable not because they\u2019re undecided, but because they display an openness to their own potential for error that undermines the sense of certainty that everyone else relies on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In spite of the doubt-based anxiety that Schulz references, religious agnostics<\/a> and independent voters<\/a> are both growing as segments of the population, at least within the US. In politics, independents increasingly blame the polarization between the major parties for producing agendas too far to either end of the political spectrum<\/a>. Meanwhile, those professing to be of no religion haven\u2019t necessarily stopped believing in God, though they\u2019ve turned their backs on organized <\/em>religion.<\/a> Therefore, in many cases of political and religious doubt<\/a>, people may not be challenging their own beliefs as much as they\u2019re questioning the validity of the organizations that purport to represent them.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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