Parents give their children advice about life, the universe and everything to try to give them ammunition to hold their own. The best advice I ever had from my father was on the subject of having opinions that were different from other people’s. He said there would be many times in life when I would have a different view from other people – he told me that I should never automatically assume I was wrong. I never took this as licence automatically to assume that I was right, mind you, but it was helpful to have the core idea embedded in my brain that being in a minority didn’t mean my view was not worth having.
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