andrewducker | Opinions, revisions and feelings

Having been chatting with Gordon, he's helped me clarify my ideas a bit on instincts, intuitions and opinions.

I'm generally unwilling to set my opinion in stone. I'd much rather acknowledge that I'm not perfect and can make mistakes, and therefore I'm happy to take my intuition as a first guess, and think about it further to clarify my opinion and discuss it later to make sure I still feel that way, but I'm not happy saying "I've made my decision and I will not change it" because I don't believe in infallibility, either of myself or of others.

This is why people saying "I always go by my first instinct." annoys me. Not because they use their instincts (I'm wholly in favour of that), but because they believe that their instincts,opinions and feelings are infallible. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that people can be infallible.

Which would naturally lead me onto my thoughts about recognising that you (and those around you) are human, and thus make mistakes, but alas I have to go and do some actualy work :->