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This is Optimal Living Daily episode 427, skepticism may be harmful or fatal if swallowed by

Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com and I'm Justin Mollick, the guy who reads blog posts to you every

single day to help you optimize your life, and it is with permission from the authors.

And I like to keep these intros as short as possible so let's get right to Steve's post and

start optimizing your life. Skepticism may be harmful or fatal if swallowed by Steve Pavlina of

stevepavlina.com. Skepticism means to use doubt and disbelief as tools for understanding reality,

with the hope that the resulting insights will allow one to behave intelligently.

Skepticism originally came about as a form of opposition to dogma. The general idea behind

skepticism is to avoid swallowing foolish beliefs. That's all well and good, but today it's

common to see the practice of skepticism stretch far beyond religious and spiritual matters.

If skepticism can help you avoid falling prey to religious dogma,

perhaps it will work in other areas too. And to some degree, it does. Skepticism is good for

avoiding business games for instance. There is a risk of skepticism however and that is a risk

of swallowing it. When you swallow skepticism, you turn its gaze inward upon yourself.

You attempt to use doubt and disbelief as tools for self understanding. What am I capable of?

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