conviction - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud

what is your relationship to reality?

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…

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