Changing your mind isn’t weak. Pretending you always believed the new thing is.

Updating a view when you learn something new is the whole point of learning. What people actually distrust is the quiet rewrite, where you slide into the new opinion and behave as though you were never on the other side. Nobody can tell what you think now if you keep editing what you thought then.

Next time you shift on something, say the plain sentence out loud. I used to think this, now I think that, and here is what moved me. It takes ten seconds and it makes your word worth something.