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I’ve been thinking a lot about conviction lately — or as Mills Baker (paraphrasing William James) eloquently puts it, the union of conscience and will. From my POV some people innately have more conviction than others, sure, but most people don’t even try to build any of their own because they’re so used to blindly adopting the opinions of others. Assembling yourself out of the amalgamation of inputs and environments that were thrown your way makes your locus of control external. An internal locus of control implies that your assemblage of self was purpose-built with a specific intention in mind. Conviction in oneself is not a commodity — it’s bespoke by nature. The best example of this kind of conviction is embodied by Steve Jobs (who, fun fact, learned it from Robert Friedland) — a man so charismatic that a word was coined to describe his effect on people: “reality distortion field.” As defined, the effectiveness of a distortion field lies in the field owner’s complete and utter beli

conviction what is your relationship to reality? Molly Mielke McCarthy Dec 16, 2022 31 1 Share I’ve been thinking a lot about conviction lately — or as Mills Baker (paraphrasing William James) eloquently puts it , the union of conscience and will . From my POV some people innately have more conviction than others, sure, but most people don’t even try to build any of their own because they’re so used to blindly adopting the opinions of others. Assembling yourself out of the amalgamation of inputs and environments that were thrown your way makes your locus of control external. An internal locus

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