To be clear, you don’t need to get smarter. Neither do I.
I don’t really care, nor should you care if I care, because nowhere in this reality we call life does it matter how smart or dumb each of us is.
That’s lesson one.
However, if you want to get smarter, there is a simple prescription:
Question your own beliefs.
When you do that, you realize that many questions are valid scientifically, if not emotionally.
“Could the earth be flat?”
“Could gender be fluid?”
“Could lockdowns and masking be more harmful than helpful?”
“Could Christianity be wrong?”
“Could Q be nothing more than a grand marketing scheme?”
“Could COVID vaccines be responsible for deaths?”
By the way, it’s OK to land back on the same belief you had before you questioned it. Most of the time, you will. But the journey will pay dividends in the form of previously unknown nuggets of insight and understanding. And those tiny little nuggets stacked upon one another allow us to build the bridge of empathy.
Smart people aren’t afraid to question their beliefs, nor are they afraid of revisiting already answered questions, if even just to confirm.
The Science(tm) demands it.
