The change causes the people around you to feel uncomfortable.
This is the danger.
The social incentives align for you to not change in public, even if you grow out of your beliefs in private.
Stupid people see someone changing their mind as an indication of unsophistication, because they don’t understand that updating your worldview when you grow is a sign of intelligence, not fickleness.
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“If you commit yourself to some worldview or life philosophy, what happens if you stop agreeing with it? You might want to change, but everybody around you has grown accustomed to the precious version of you.”
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