Doubt

It is sometimes worth to recall a thought or idea that I strongly believe in the past as absolute truth but now turn to be false and mislead. How does one encountered such changes of paradigm is phenomenon.

The thing I experience in myself every time I was in such situation is not the feeling of embarrassment that I thought I should have but rather the feelings of relief or maybe victory or maybe arrogant and such enlightenment is breathtaking and worth pursuing.

But somehow even though such reward is recognizable, I still find it hard to rationalize with opposite ideas as the wrath of cognitive dissonance is overwhelming me. If for instances that the reward is to be perceived as inferior to one stand to an idea, at least our own cognitive capacity should know for a fact that there is in every given situation a possibility that my ideas is wrong.

Such possibility however insignificant it is must compel me to be more humble and receiver to other opinions. But such possibility can also compel me to doubt every ideas or opinions that I hold right now. This is the proposition brought by Rene Descartes in First Meditation……