![]() You’ve got to have some anchor, something that you feel is true knowledge, true wisdom, that will outlast at least the duration of your lifetime, lest you float in confusion and indecision all day long. His eating habit has made him overweight and piled up with steroids and medicines to fight this disease. But, like astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “ It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out. Summary FAT, SICK AND NEARLY DEAD Joe Cross is an American, film maker and forty one year old ordinary man suffering from bad eating habits and an odd auto-immune disease for the past nine years. Seller will maintain its production facilities and all equipment in good. And if this is true, then not feeling too confident about what you think you know is a good thing. Seller will also follow all state regulations concerning the disposal of dead animals. I’d like to think that being open to questioning what you think you know is an advanced stage of being because it allows you to grow, to learn, and to value truth and reality above lies and self deception. Haven’t you noticed this? Haven’t you ever changed your mind on something based on new information? After all, what’s true today may not be found to be true in the future. How can we know for sure that it’s not?īut for people who lack an ideology that guides them to believe with certainty, it’s actually pretty hard to feel that sense of knowing something without having even the slightest shadow of a doubt creep in to question it. Joe Cross is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, author and wellness advocate. It may very well be that a person’s strong belief is an accurate and helpful description of reality. This is not to suggest that being an ideologue is wrong. In that case, it’s very easy to be confident, or overconfident even, in what you think you know. ![]() He battles autoimmune disease and steroid injections that have led to his obesity. ![]() If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.īefore we begin, I first want to point out that it’s hard to feel confident about what you think you know-at least, if you are not an ideologue who feels absolute certainty because you want to, or must, believe something is true. Following Joe Cross for sixty days as an overweight man looking for a way to be happy in life, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a touching story of a man who wants others to realise that there is always time for a change. Wilson from RedBubble based on work by Pexels on Pixabay Image of Stockholm Public Library by L.E. ![]()
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