Changing your mind might just be the bravest thing you do today.

I thought Dubai was a cultureless swamp. Until I stopped viewing it with cultureless eyes.

In business, and in life, we must normalise that it’s okay to change your mind.

In our work, we are constantly being shown new information, new approaches, and new ways of doing things.

And if you read, learn and research a lot, you’re probably not the same person you were a month ago.

If you read, learn and research a lot, you’re probably not the same person you were a month ago.

So why would you hold yourself to a train of thought that you’ve now moved away from?

After all, it would be a failure to not use today’s tools to challenge the way I approached yesterday’s problem.

The problem is, society is quick to judge those who change their mind often. These people are flippant, inconsistent, or worse, confused. We can’t possibly comprehend that some people might be so dynamic, that their mind is capable of oscillating between new opportunities, just like a child transitions from one favourite toy to the next.

Ignore the haters.

It’s perfectly healthy to ask yourself whether you still subscribe to the decisions you made. The article you wrote. The career you chose. The friends you keep.

Just because I didn’t enjoy my first trip to Paris in the winter of 2013, doesn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy it now.

Those Facebook posts I wrote in 2012. Thank god for the ‘memories’ function. Even better, we have the delete button. I’m happy to cancel culture the stupid things I wrote a decade ago.

I’m happy to cancel culture the stupid things I wrote a decade ago.

If I didn’t question whether I still enjoyed working in journalism, maybe I’d still be kicking the can around, doing the same thing I was a decade ago. As it turned out, changing my mind spiralled me into something better — beyond all of my expectations.

Changing your mind isn’t weakness. It just shows you’re learning. And disagreeing with yourself might just be the ultimate act of intelligence.

Disagreeing with yourself might just be the ultimate act of intelligence.

What have you changed your mind on recently?

This is the longer version of a post that first appeared on LinkedIn.