What you want to be true

We rarely recognize how often we want something to be true, and we realize even less how much that desire—wanting a certain thing to be true—affects our attitudes, opinions, and emotions.

It is dangerous when you want something to be true. Because you manipulate your view of the world to fit the truth you want instead of adjusting yourself to the truth as it is.

A good discipline to practice is letting go of wanting things to be true. It does not mean ignoring your desires. It means acknowledging your overarching desire but interacting with the world with an interest only in discovering what is true, not trying to project your preferred truth onto the world.

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.