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Try to be skeptical without being cynical. Remember that you are not your ideas or beliefs. At most those things are you at a specific point in time. Being sh
by jamesbritt 13y ago
Try to be skeptical without being cynical.
Remember that you are not your ideas or beliefs. At most those things are you at a specific point in time.
Being shown to be wrong about something does not make you a lesser or bad person. Merely wrong, and you can change that.
- usernew1817 13y agoI think this seems to be my biggest problem, the older I get the more cynical I'm becoming, and I hate it. Any tips on looking at ideas through the lens of curiosity rather then cynicism?
- arbitrage 13y agoi saw the same thing happening to me, and i really didn't like it. the best way i found around this was identification and practice. the first thing is to look at how you think and act. you said, "I hate it". that's a very strong emotion, and a very strong idea. and it indicates you've already become negative. try turning it around ... realize that you've already identified a problem, and now have an opportunity to work on changing it. once i started doing this, my next reaction was that this is positive thinking bullshit. which it seems like. but i'm using it to change myself, which works ... not effect change in the external world through positive thinking, which doesn't necesarily work all that well. etc, etc. if you start softening your words, your thoughts follow (and vice versa). you can regain an objective and thoughtful outlook on life and experiences, instead of short-circuiting your through process by relying on pre-disgested, ready-made thought patterns.