What’s worse than having a blindspot?

Identifying one and believing that we are addressing it when we are actually not.

Combine that with arrogance or lack of humility and you have the perfect recipe for a mirage.

But all illusions are eventually broken. And this will be a rude unexpected wake-up call that we might not have the strength to recover from.

A few tips I have found to help steer myself away from this pitfall.

• Consistently question and re-evaluate.
• Be humble. Always be open to the fact that I don’t know everything on a subject.
• Get to know other opinions different from my own. Understand their point of view.
• Surround myself with people from different schools of thought and varied lifestyles.
• Remind myself that everything is constantly changing. No opinion can be absolute or eternally right.

The day we become arrogant about our knowledge in a field is the moment we will cease to grow. Nothing can be more self-destructive than that.