Did I just invent a word that we cringe about so much?
I just tuned into Adam Grant’s Re.thinking podcast with Jacina Arderne who says that self-doubt can surprisingly be good for us – it can be motivating.
Plugging into this thinking thread, I have also found the importance of doubting in Rod Judkin’s book called The Art of Creative Thinking.
When you doubt things, your mind creates healthy reasoning to confirm to what are facts and what can be course-corrected. A lot of times, we are in a deluge of thoughts that are pure illusionary and not significant in action when we go myopic with our attention towards them.
So next time when you doubt, ask yourself again, does this thought lead to a meaningful action? Does this resonate with my philosophy? Does it imply something for the long-term? Does it render a cause for the future?
All great thinkers like Michalangelo, to Einstein forged with a fair sense of questioning themselves when they found themselves at cross-roads of making meaningful inventive decisions.
Your doubts makes you forthcoming into new creative angles to view situations, people, things and experiences you encounter.
The way to redoubt is to think about your doubt again – not in a negative or an unpleasant way, but simply to view it as a third person – as a watcher of the thought under your purview.
Doubting yourself brings evidence to your rationale and provides you with a wider and deeper perspective about something you’ve been ruminating about. In fact, self-doubt brings our the innate self-awareness of what we should imminently trust and what seems to be a facade of ‘truth’ layered with self-bias that need a profound revelation via re-doubt.
When in doubt, this time doubt for discernment so you bring out the qualified consensus.
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