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Well, that was quite something.

> The funny thing here is that I'm 100% aware that our stories are wrong. Our own stories, doubly so. We back-fit narratives. Our minds rewrite what we remember ourselves thinking at the time.

What are some ways to break out of this mode, and look back upon the timeline for what it was? robfitz wrote 'The Mom Test', so they must know!?

> So our stories are wrong. But they still matter.

I guess cognitive dissonance is how most of us are keeping our world-view intact. Especially when you realise that nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things [1].

[1] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4iC9Qi3y9q8

parent ignoramous 4 years ago

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