How do you find balance between not knowing and conviction?

[YIDIRYIDIR]

How do you hold an idea or map of reality firmly enough to act on it, but loosely enough to abandon it when you're wrong?

I keep running into this: I'll arrive at some understanding; about people, about how things work, about myself, and I'll feel it clearly enough to say it with confidence. Then sometimes later I look back and realize I was missing something obvious, or i was wrong.

The naive fix is to just "stay curious and uncertain." But that's not really a solution, it's an abdication. You can't navigate life in permanent suspension. You need maps, even imperfect ones. You need to commit to a direction or you go nowhere.

So the real question isn't whether to hold convictions, but how?, how do you build maps that are solid enough to act on, but not so rigid they stop you from growing? is it just "act based on your best guess"? or something to do with intuition and insight? or is it a paradox?

Edited 1 hour ago by YIDIRYIDIR

[No1Here2c]

Its about the context the map is held within.

[No1Here2c]

The map contains itself.

[No1Here2c]

Sure do watch out for the Terrain!

[No1Here2c]

Don't get caught up in the map!

That's a trap!