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So it's not always clear that changing your mind is necessary. We tend
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to identify times when _other people_ need to change their minds.
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Paradoxically, that often means there's something wrong with our own
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way of thinking. A stark example is people who value diversity
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insisting in the strongest terms that people they disagree with need
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to change their opinions. I'm not saying their core beliefs are
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wrong. (I often find myself agreeing, in fact). Rather there is an
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inherent contradiction that ought to be examined with honesty.
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to identify times when _other people_ need to change their minds. To quote Jesus:
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> Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you
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pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be
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measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s
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eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you
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say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when
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there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log
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out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck
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out of your brother’s eye.—Matthew 7:1–5
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([ESV](https://www.esv.org/Matthew+7/))
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At any rate, I started with a story about how I changed the way I
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think about video game controls and it's about time I got to the

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