Can You Fully Trust Yourself?

Probably not, but here’s why that’s okay

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Have you ever been around someone who was absolutely certain about something but then were shown to be dead wrong?

Probably, right? It’s such a common thing in our lives. Our friend marches up to some girl he swears likes him but gets rejected. Our parents know exactly what we want for Christmas but guess wrong. Our coworker knows exactly how to get some client but fails. Our government gathers intelligence but their plan is doomed to fail.

And we’re just as fallible. We get into relationships, start businesses, set plans and make predictions that reveal that we didn’t know what the hell we were doing.

I know this might make you feel worried. In this realization you may ask yourself, “How can I ever trust myself?”

Firstly, please do not give into black and white thinking. Trusting yourself completely and distrusting yourself completely are two extremes that will only lead to cataclysmic problems.

Communism and the execution of that ideology was an idea that many people from different countries totally believed in. For many centuries, our ancestors believed the Earth was flat. They also believed the Sun rotated around the Earth.