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Originally Posted by Sam988  While your thinking, steve, makes sense to some extent, it allows someone who accepts it to create all sorts of wishful thinking based on things that they heard and chose to believe, because they "need no proof anymore". |
By stating your fear that wishful thinking will lead to impaired functionality, you provide a pretty good demonstration that proof-seeking is indeed fear-based, which was a key point of the article.
However, when you actually turn that page -- as in turn it yourself personally, not merely projecting it onto people you imagine have already done it -- quite a difference experience follows.
I'm suggesting that your fear of wishful thinking is a facade you're using to block your own creative self-expression. I understand how attached people get to those facades, but they're unnecessary. By letting go of the fear-based need for proof, you won't suddenly becoming a gullible wreck. But you will free up a lot of creative energy that you can channel into more fulfilling pursuits.