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>Not buying that. So, you are not changing your opinion. But you could if you wanted to. You could change your mind about something that you believe to be fal
by perl4ever 5y ago
>Not buying that.
So, you are not changing your opinion. But you could if you wanted to.
You could change your mind about something that you believe to be false, without any outside influence, through pure will.
>If you choose to believe you have no responsibility for your situation, odds are pretty good you'll have a life of mediocrity and failure.
The link is to a well known essay by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, mediocrity and failure. It goes into the consequences of such beliefs at great length.
- WalterBright 5y agoSo Clemens freely chose to write that, and you freely chose to quote it. How droll.
- perl4ever 5y agoDo you in general believe things of your own will for utilitarian reasons? It makes me think of "The Secret" / Law of Attraction, or similar cults, though I have not actually been a target of proselytizing for those. More people than I'd realized are into it.