The Importance of Understanding Your Beliefs

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It's not a matter of disbelieving or being skeptical, but knowing what the sources of support are for your beliefs. Life is short. You can't know everything. So sometimes your reasons for believing things are, look, I'm not an expert in this, but I trust this person's point of view about it. It shouldn't be everyone's reason to have certain beliefs about any certain topic because some people's job should be to really think about every possibility and dig deeply.

Welcome to the July 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.

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Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/03/ama-july-2023/

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