9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings

We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting these donned opinions and clinging to them as anchors to our own reality.

Maria Popova writes in 9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings.