Half a structure is plenty, actually

Why becoming a better thinker is the first step toward losing your convictions

Have you—or someone you love—ever felt right, and therefore concluded you are right? Defending your position like it’s the final yard in a football game while still somehow standing at midfield on fourth down, completely confident the strategy is working?

Do you ever pause and think:

“Hmm…perhaps this strategy can’t bear weight?”

Of course not. You say:

“They just don’t appreciate the vision.”

Well good news. You may be experiencing Stubbornness™. And best of all, any criticism can now be labeled a moral failure. Step inside a world of stability, efficiency, and absolutely zero criticism. And when someone says:

“This game feels lifeless…”

You respond:

“That’s irrational.”

Amazing.

Here’s how it works:

1. Pick your favorite poison.

2. Give it a purpose.

3. Set the ideal as the standard: “This is how things should be.”

4. Apply moral pressure to all those who question the standard.

And just like that—you are now unable to grow. Because growing would betray the standard.

So instead, you do the only reasonable thing. You promote it to The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God™ and from there, everything else is wrong.

Because why build something that works when you can defend something that doesn’t?