We are all convinced that we are right, but when we disagree then someone must be wrong.
Notes:
- Today I want to talk to you about the truth, and our many blind spots associated with establishing it.
- We are all convinced that we are right, but when we disagree then someone must be wrong.
- Nobody has a monopoly on the truth.
- If nothing else, in the interests of fairness, somebody has to be wrong.
- Perhaps we should agree to take turns, which is democratic, right?
- Joking aside, there is a more obvious solution: we use facts.
- That is why objective facts matter so much: they offer arbitration when there is disagreement.
- There is your version of the truth, my version of the truth, and then there is objective truth.
- Objective truth does not care about feelings, it exists independent of those.
- According to Wikipedia: "Something is objective if it can be confirmed independently of a mind. If a claim is true even when considering it outside the viewpoint of a sentient being, then it is labelled objectively true.". Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjectivity_and_objectivity_(philosophy)
- In the purest sense, all decisions should be made based on objective truth. In reality, it is often hard to establish that in time.
- As a leader, it is very important to be able to tell the difference between subjective and objective truth, and to maintain a strong bias for objectivity when making an important decision.
- Equally one must not fall into the trap of assuming a fact becomes "more true" if more people believe in it: in fact a majority of people can be wrong objectively. It's rare, but it happens.
- Put simply, we are all wrong sometimes but we don't always acknowledge it.
- What I am working on this week:
- Media I am enjoying this week:
- Shipwreak by Charles Logan, what and amazing book!
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