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I think the current version, with or without reference to God, is a great life strategy, it’s just really hard.

Changing our own beliefs and accepting that others hold different and potentially immutable beliefs is the challenge of the serenity prayer.

Morgan Housel‘s blog at the Collab Fund has some brilliant quotes and thinking on challenges which span time.

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Thoreau

When you think of the costs of your beliefs it’s hard to calculate what is the exchange value of maintaining them, but sometimes it’s high.

“The dangerous thing is that beliefs based on experience seem evidence-based. But when we’re overwhelmed with observations in a complex world, we cherry-pick the most attractive evidence to appease our simple, story-loving minds.” – Housel

Changing our beliefs requires us to accept that life requires us to make decisions in spite of uncertainty and acknowledge that what we previously thought now appears to be wrong.

“When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?”
John Maynard Keynes

Being occasionally wrong is a universal and durable feature of the human experience.

Link to Dan Ariely’s post