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UnnamedPrayer | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 > I was wrong once like you
💯 

i wonder what is more difficult for people: 
- critical and open thinking or
- admitting being wrong

luckily there's NGU™ technology to the rescue
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Silner | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It seems to me, the hardest thing is #uncertainty.

You meet a lot of people who are adamant #btc will keep rising. 

You meet a lot of people who think it will crash to nothing.

I do own some btc but I'm not categorically certain what it will do.

For me it's just a reasonable risk to take. My own guess is there is some, as yet to be determined natural level for #bitcoin. 

I'm making a reasonable guess it will be higher than I bought it. 

And it's not as unique as both sides claim either. After all we're spending a certain amount of time here. We're taking a #risk that time won't be wasted.

That's normal #human #behaviour. The only unusual thing about our time is how sure we are that we're right. 

That's the arrogance of our age.
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UnnamedPrayer | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Uncertainty is scary therefore people want to controll every aspect of their life hence the arrogant confidence.
However it is different when confidence comes from experience rather than stubbornness and that's true for cooking, mountain climbing and bitcoin etc. but the latter deals with money what is particularly itchy for most people.