Is being able to say "Having said that..." and proceeding to acknowledge the flaws or potentil issues in your ideas a sign of that thing thats supposed to be good?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · edit-2 7 months ago

Is being able to say "Having said that..." and proceeding to acknowledge the flaws or potentil issues in your ideas a sign of that thing thats supposed to be good?

kakes@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

Are you trying to say cognitive dissonance?

…cause I definitely felt some cognitive dissonance reading this post.

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · edit-2 7 months ago

There’s a negative connotation one (cognitive dissonance) and then there’s a positive connotation one that is different but has something to do with being able to examine an idea or two conflicting ideas without having it affect your objectivity + mental distress.

Isn’t cognitive dissonance an uncomfortable thing? What I’m thinking of is the opposite of discomfort with the conflicting ideas

ULS@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

Understanding? Just basic understanding? As in these days people subscribe to pop politics and live for sound bites and marketed simplified ideas… They don’t understand. But if you talk to someone that does understand they will grow and build with each conversation.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

I think OP is trying to argue the kinda the opposite (but not fully) of cognitive dissonance.

Acknowledging the flaws in something they support, but still thinking it’s the best VS pretending there’s no flaws in what they support and thinking it’s the only option because of it.