This is premature certainty: committing to a direction before you’ve tested it. Because premature certainty is so insidious, it can actually be more dangerous than making big mistakes.*
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
There is an old aphorism: It’s easier to be a great man than a good one.**
Ryan Holiday
The first elemental truth^ states
Life is hard–
Perhaps our best lives
are created through how we overcome.
Going for the easier solution
may be our worst response,
And facing the fullness of the problem
may shape the people we become.
*Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Ness Labs newsletter: Premature Certainty;
**Ryan Holiday’s Right Thing, Right Now;
^Richard Rohr’s Adam’s Return.
THIN|SILENCE 