We don't like to admit we changed our minds
I am struck less by the frank admission of ways in which I have changed my mind, as by an underlying resistance to admitting that I have done so. I think this is a common trait. We may admit to 2 or 3 major shifts in our lifetime – which we would have to be blind not to see – but on the whole prefer to believe that we are consistent human beings rather than seaweed tossed around by the tides. We believe – we have to believe, otherwise we would be lost – in the integrity of the personality; also in the continuity of our lives making narrative sense. We don’t like to think we have lost the plot.
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