that rather than attempting to implement, often through lethal force, their conceptual self across the world, people should question their conceptual… - Mark Manson

here’s something that’s weird but true: we don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is.

Uncertainty removes our judgments of others; it preempts the unnecessary stereotyping and biases that we otherwise feel when we see somebody on TV, in the office, or on the street. Uncertainty also relieves us of our judgment of ourselves. We don’t know if we’re lovable or not; we don’t know how attractive we are; we don’t know how successful we could potentially become. The only way to achieve these things is to remain uncertain of them and be open to finding them out through experience.

Science is arguably the most effective religion because it is the first religion that is able to evolve and improve upon itself.