Changing your mind isn’t failure. It’s evolution.

If you knew then what you knew then, you would do it all the same. So cut yourself some slack. You know, like, just have a little more self-compassion. Life, you are evolving. You have reasons for why you're doing things. You actually are making good choices given your mental model. And yeah, you can change your mental model. Keep growing, keep exploring. And you're more likely to keep growing and exploring if you stop beating yourself up about how you used to be. Like, if I get punished for changing because I'm gonna beat myself up every time I learn something new and I'm now embarrassed, am I more likely to change? I think I'm more likely to run away from it. I don't want to deal with that guy, that jerk who's going to keep on punishing me, my future self. Yeah. So that's a shift I want to make, and I'm still working on it, but I'm much better at it than I used to be. We're all work in progress.