Rare Skills

Three rare and powerful skills:

 
Understanding how people justify their beliefs in a way that makes you respect their delusions.

A rare and useful skill is understanding that people you find to be deluded likely suffer from the same shortcomings you do.

Historian Will Durant wrote in his book The Lessons of History that we should learn enough from history to respect each other’s delusions. He explained:

Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.

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