Why Changing Your Mind May Be the Highest Form of Intelligence
For most of human history, we've admired consistency.
We trust leaders who stand by their convictions. We value engineers whose systems behave predictably. We praise organizations that execute a clear strategy year after year. Consistency feels like confidence, and confidence is often mistaken for intelligence.
Until the world changes.
That's the moment when consistency and intelligence begin to go off in different direction. That’s the moment things diverge.
Continuing to produce the same conclusion after the conditions have changed isn't evidence of strength. It's evidence that the reasoning behind the conclusion has stopped evolving. A fly trapped in a room doesn't lack determination or energy. Its problem is that it just keeps trying the one window it already knows, banging its head against the same pane of glass again and again long after the door three feet away has been standing open the whole time.
That distinction sits at the...
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