How to Detach Your Present Self From Your Past Self

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In order to get there to this place of confident humility, we need to modify our attachments. How do we do that? I think it's hard. Honestly, I'm not sure I know. I have some hunches, hypotheses waiting to be tested. My old self doesn't reflect on my current self completely. It's a shadow. The other way is that he wasn't yet prepared to take on this problem. And I'm glad that I'm a little wiser now and I'm going to try to avoid some of the mistakes that he made.

We’re taught that the mark of surefire intelligence is the ability to think and learn. But in his new book, “Think Again,” Adam Grant says that in our turbulent world, there’s a more important skill: the ability to rethink and unlearn. If you can learn how to revise your opinions, check your ego, and admit when you’re wrong, then you’ll be on a path toward wisdom and joy.