Diogenes Laertius: Zeno also held that nothing obstructs…

Learning requires a place for correction. If every mistake threatens your identity, you will defend the mistake instead of investigating it. This is why self-deception is so costly: it turns useful feedback into an enemy and leaves us repeating the same pattern with growing confidence. Today, notice the subject on which you are quickest to insist that you already know enough. It could be a work skill, a relationship habit, a financial decision, or an opinion you hold tightly. Invite one piece of evidence that might complicate your view. Ask a trusted person for a candid observation, reread the results, or simply admit uncertainty. You do not become smaller by revising yourself. You become more capable, because reality has a better chance to teach you.