The Confidently Wrong
It is a dangerous habit to fall in love with one’s own ideas.
The longer we spend in a sector or profession, the easier it becomes to surround ourselves with people who think as we do, read the same authors, attend the same conferences and reinforce the same beliefs. We see this in real life and in the echo chambers that typify social media. Over time, theories that began life as tentative hypotheses can become articles of faith. We stop asking whether an idea is true and instead begin defending it as though it were part of our identity.
