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The Problem With Too Much Conviction

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The Problem With Too Much Conviction

Or, why you don’t always need to be sure about what you are doing

Abhishek Chakraborty
Jan 16, 2022
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👋 Hey there! My name is Abhishek. Welcome to a new edition of The Sunday Wisdom! This is the best way to learn new things with the least amount of effort.

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Let’s begin with some positive thought.

I recently read a story about a man whose wife had committed suicide after suffering from postpartum depression. Here’s a man who not only has a newborn but must also process the devastation of his wife’s death. He could easily, and no one would fault him for it, spiral into a “why me” of self-pity and anger at how his life turned out.

But instead, he took the …

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