Jeff Bezos once wrote a blog post titled “The Smart People Change Their Minds.” He wrote: “The people who are right a lot more often change their minds.” Bezos went on to say he doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait: “It’s better, even healthier in fact, to have an idea that contradicts one you had before. The smart people constantly revise their understandings of a matter. They reconsider problems they thought they had solved. They are open to new points of view, new information, and challenges to their own ways of thinking.”
