Change your mind – it’s a sign of strength not weakness

FULL STORY by Mark Rice-Oxley: The GUARDIAN....

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Of course it’s important to retain some moral bearings, some fixed values that will not shift alarmingly according to the opinion of the last person you’ve spoken to. I’m sure, if I think hard enough, there are things I will not change my mind about: tax havens, paedophilia, bigotry, FGM, pimping, slavery. But almost everything else – who knows? John Maynard Keynes said: “When the facts change, I change my mind”. The facts change a lot over a lifetime.

And this is perhaps the crucial point. For our psychological balance, we are meant to change our minds. It’s absurd to think that we will believe the same things at 80 that we did at 18, that our worldview can really survive intact when constantly pulverised by the relentless tides of experience.