• That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

    Malcolm Gladwell: That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
    "Malcolm Gladwell on Criticism, Tolerance, and Changing Your Mind" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org.