Entro limiti ragionevoli, non mi interessa se le mie convinzioni sono vere.

Perché dovrei?

Per un individuo, in molte situazioni, ci sono più narrazioni ugualmente corrette tra cui scegliere. In questi casi, dovresti scegliere la rappresentazione che funziona meglio per te.

“Giudichi un modello in base a quanto ti è utile, non in base a quanto sia giusto.” – Charles Chu

Ad esempio, potrei dire a me stesso e agli altri che ho deviato a Budapest perché non riuscivo a ottenere il lavoro che volevo nei Paesi Bassi. Potrei anche dire alla gente che sono venuto qui perché il suo dipartimento di filosofia supera il dipartimento di filosofia di tutte le università olandesi e voglio diventare il miglior filosofo che possa essere.

Entrambe sono vere. Come decidere quale modo di pensare dovrei interiorizzare?

Facile:

usa la versione che presenta la parte migliore di te.

Inoltre, nella maggior parte degli aspetti della vita, avere ragione non è ciò che è più importante. L’unica area in cui la verità importa intrinsecamente è la filosofia morale (spiego perché più avanti).

In altre aree della vita, anche con  se con ragione, non cercare di pensare per arrivare a una maggiore accuratezza e verità, ma prova ad avere pensieri che rendono la tua vita migliore.

Se questi modi di pensare rappresentino il mondo in modo corretto e rigoroso, poco importa.

 

Alcune cheesy lines che sono effettivamente vere

Ci sono conseguenze dei nostri pensieri che sono molto più importanti della totale accuratezza e verità.

  1. Una persona è il prodotto dei suoi pensieri: quelli che impiegano le attitudini seconde sono spesso i secondi migliori.
  2. Gli altri vedono in noi ciò che vediamo in noi stessi. Wayne Dyer ha detto:

    “Se cambi il modo in cui guardi le cose, le cose che guardi cambiano”.

  3. Le persone, le cose e gli eventi non entrano nella tua coscienza senza mediazione. La tua mentalità influenza il tuo mondo.

Queste sono cheesy lines. Ma possono essere anche vere.

Se non sei consapevole dell’influenza che il tuo dialogo interiore ha sulla tua vita e della reversibilità di questo effetto, stai veramente tradendo le gioie della vita.

 

Il punto di vista

Vedi, non è come se questo significasse ingannare te stesso o usare la tua intelligenza nel modo sbagliato (qualunque cosa significhi).

Perché, pensaci: a cosa servono i pensieri in primo luogo?

La cognizione umana non si è mai evoluta per la precisione.

L’evoluzione non ci programma per la verità, ma per la sopravvivenza. Il punto dei nostri pensieri è pratico – non epistemologico. I nostri pensieri sono lì per migliorare le nostre vite (o le nostre possibilità di sopravvivenza).

“Avere ragione” è prezioso solo a tal fine, ma non è l’obiettivo finale.

Per estensione, non dovremmo valutare il contenuto delle nostre convinzioni sul fatto che siano “giuste”, ma su quanto bene fanno andare le nostre vite.

(La ragione per cui penso che qui la filosofia morale sia diversa, a differenza di “verità”, “buono” è un concetto normativo. Per ogni verità descrittiva sul mondo, c’è sempre l’ulteriore domanda su cosa fare alla luce di esso. Per la ragione che coinvolge le verità normative, se esse esistono, non ci sarebbe alcuna ulteriore domanda. Nelle questioni normative, la verità è decisiva. Questo è il motivo per cui è così importante cercare di capire se esistono verità normative.)

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