Derek Sivers explains how we choose beliefs because they're useful, not true. Choose your goals and beliefs only for how they help you now. Don't care whether something is true, only whether it works for you. Adopt beliefs just for fun to try different ways of being. Creative experiments are always a legitimate and underrated goal.
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever actions you take in your life. The story is about how we choose beliefs because they’re useful, not true. Beliefs make emotions. Emotions make actions.