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by aucisson_masque 418 days ago
It’s well written, but I beg to differ.

You should never ever considerate other opinion to make your own choice.

We are the sum of our decisions, I don’t want to be the sum of the crowd decisions.

There is also the factor of pride. Either you’re confident enough in your judgement or you’re not, but taking a bold decision that goes against all odd and people’s opinion, and managing to make it work, is extremely satisfying.

If you start reviewing your opinion based on crowd opinion, all that’s going to happen is you will be more and more inclined to suppress your own opinion in favor of the majority, until you don’t trust your guts anymore and you become part of the crowd.

Bestie there is a saying « you learn from your own mistake ».

2 comments

> You should never ever considerate other opinion to make your own choice

This makes no sense. You should absolutely consider other people's opinions for a lot of decisions, since other people's opinions affect the world.

> You should never ever

Wisdom is not memorizing and following hard rules, it's developing the judgment to know when diverging from the majority is correct and when it isn't.