- Though we're often told to be confident and trust our judgment sometimes maybe it's important to question ourselves and be skeptical. - This is also a way to be [[Congressive]] and [[Eugenia Cheung]] talks about how we should create systems where it's more important to be more thorough and skeptical rather than forcing people to be confident and claiming that confidence is a key marker for success. - [[Registered Reports]] is also a way that can be used to address this in science. ---- "Certainty is the enemy of growth. Nothing is for certain until it has already happened—and even then, it’s still debatable. That’s why accepting the inevitable imperfections of our values is necessary for any growth to take place. Instead of striving for certainty, we should be in constant search of doubt. Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are." "There’s a lot of conventional wisdom out there telling you to “trust yourself,” to “go with your gut,” and all sorts of other pleasant-sounding clichés. But perhaps the answer is to trust yourself less. After all, if our hearts and minds are so unreliable, maybe we should be questioning our own intentions and motivations more. " "For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. Racists do racist things because they’re certain about their genetic superiority. Religious fanatics blow themselves up and murder dozens of people because they’re certain of their place in heaven as martyrs. Men rape and abuse women out of their certainty that they’re entitled to women’s bodies. Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather, they believe that everyone else is evil." Mark Manson in [[Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck]]