What's something you believed 5 years ago that you don't anymore?

[Sega26]

I used to think more information always led to better decisions. Just read more, know more, choose better.

Now I suspect overload can actually paralyze decision making more than ignorance sometimes

[BlackMamba]

Five years ago I genuinely believed productivity was just about finding the perfect system. Apps, planners, color coded everything.

Now I realize most of it was just procrastination with extra steps. The system never mattered as much as actually doing the thing

[CMPunk]

I used to think intelligence was mostly fixed. Like you either had it or you didn't and education just revealed it.

Now I lean much more toward it being trainable, messy, and heavily dependent on environment and effort

[Odd Voyager]

I once thought most disagreements online were about facts. Turns out a lot of them are about identity, incentives, and attention.

That realization made internet debates about 70 percent less stressful for me