“You don't need to like a thing in order to agree with that thing.” Thoughts? So this may be a fairly common concept to many people, but weirdly, it only occurred to me a decade or so ago, and I've really come to love it; it's helped put me in the correct mental state regarding several pressing issues over the years. And before someone says something like "yeah, that's what following the data is all about" or something similar, I agree: plenty of times working at our startups in the past I certainly had to make a business decision I didn't like simply because I couldn't disagree with the data. So I guess that's a fairly good example, but I'm curious to hear of other examples where you really don't like something -- or perhaps you're opposed to it, for instance, for religious reasons, or simply because of how you were raised I suppose -- but you're nevertheless compelled to agree with it and to support it just because it's the most correct thing amongst all other alternatives. It could be a philosophical belief or idea; a political view; a social/cultural value or behavior; a legal matter; really just about anything. |