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The conceptions

I have been thinking about conceptions lately. Nothing deep or too philosophical. Just simple conceptions we hold knowingly and unknowingly about everything. About ourselves, about other people, about things, languages, places and our abilities. And I realized that so many of them are simply not true. 

As a very blunt example. I used to dislike PHP. Its one of the most used technologies that still power majority of internet today. And I had this conception in my mind that its boring, old and slow. Not good for modern times. 
And after an year or so of joining my company. I had to work on PHP. And I worked on it, got good at it and understood it. And fell in love with its functionality and simplicity. 
Now that I think a about it, I would put PHP as my favorite technology for building a website. Unless some specific feature is needed from other technologies. Now that I think of it, I should try Java too. A programming language I have passionately hated my entire life.

Anyways, the point being, we hold a lot of conceptions in ourselves. And some of them are true. But most are simply false. They get built up in ourselves because of all the external factors. The literature we read, the media we consume, the people we interact with and the environment we live in. 
And all of these build more and more conceptions in ourselves. And sometimes if we are not careful, these conceptions can hold us back. They can take away happiness and opportunities.  They dull our senses and add bias to our decision making process. We unwillingly assume things even if we have no proof of them being true. And that can lead to horrible decision making. 

I have decided to be more careful about it from now. And I have decided that I will try everything, and won't discard an idea simply because of my pre-existing conceptions. No matter how crazy it is. Or how wild it is or how impossible it seems. 



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