Let’s talk about something else today related to yesterday’s topic.

It makes sense, that our beliefs determine how we act and what outcome we get. But, listening to Logically Critical, I realized that a question he had asked was reasonable: can you really choose your beliefs?

Sure, they can develop as we get exposed to new information. Say, a belief that “everything that happens is to the better” - seems like a nice one but how do you go about it? You can try to think that it’s true but it’s not like you would believe it just because you think it’s a useful belief to have. You may say you have the belief but do you really have it or do you just say you have it?

Generally, to have a belief, you must be persuaded. At least, I think, that’s the case for me… Maybe that’s why we don’t really see people getting new beliefs everytime they decide it would be good.

P.S. A short one for today. Posting everyday is becoming not as bad. Perhaps I’ll begin covering some different topics in the upcoming days. So far, only 3 days to go and we’ll see if we continue this.