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two thoughts

- changing your opinion should be appreciated and even celebrated; the only people who will get mad about you changing an opinion are fixed mindset mids (mostly)

- optimizing for fun should be encouraged because it can mean optimizing for wealth; never fun to lose money (v different than spending money)

helping build farcaster | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina | “lucky me, lucky mud”

the challenging thing about #1 is that other people map your previously held opinions to your identity

so changing your opinions in public after they feel "entrenched" is tough for a lot of people

still gotta do it, but it takes more of a thick skin than it otherwise might in private

need more people with thicker skin; the only way out is through

I’m not the body, I’m not the mind. I exist outside of these things

no one wants to feel like they were wrong - so easier to just triple down

Justin Bieber’s lyric, 

“though I’m goin through changes, don’t mean that I’ll change” 

has stood out to me as a profound and subtle take on this perception vs identity paradox. Especially since he navigated this at the most extreme level of ‘in public’