{"id":2814,"date":"2023-10-23T01:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2023-10-23T01:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T00:20:27","slug":"verdadero-o-falso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/10\/23\/verdadero-o-falso\/","title":{"rendered":"True or false?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something interesting happened to me a few days ago: I was in a training course and saw a slide with a quote by Einstein that I thought was really cool, so I decided to publish it on Instagram. I wrote a post with the quote in English, and another one with the Spanish translation. Everything OK up to this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two minutes later, I got a message from Instagram saying that I had published false information (according to their \"independent fact checkers\"), that they had added a notice to my post warning viewers about the content not being true, and that my account was at risk of being disabled for monetization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this because apparently, Einstein was not the author of that quote...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Paper<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was a bit shocked, to be honest. I quickly rewrote the post, including the quote without mentioning the author. Once again, Instagram notified me that they had added a notice to my post because it was very similar to another one they\u00b4d already labelled as false. At least this time I could see an option to request a manual review, so I requested it; I\u00b4m curious to see their reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is, I have mixed feelings about this topic; on the one hand, I\u00b4m glad that there\u00b4s some level of fact-checking being done, though on the other hand, I wonder how effective it may be beyond checking authorship for specific texts (by the way, all this happened with the post I wrote in English; the Spanish version got published without any issues). But mainly, I was really upset that they accused me of lying! Me, lying? It was all a misunderstanding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, when I got to reflect on it a bit more afterwards, I remembered something else they told me at the same training course: regarding moral issues, like lying for example, when someone does something that\u00b4s wrong we tend to think it\u00b4s because they\u00b4re a bad person, while when we are the ones doing something wrong, we believe it\u00b4s justified given the circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, we believe we are in possession of the truth, and everyone else is mistaken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We forget that there are very few absolute truths in this world, if any. We believe we objectively know the facts, but what we\u00b4re really doing is interpreting them in our own way, filtering the perceptions we receive from our senses according to our own beliefs and assumptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u00b4s where it\u00b4s good to remember the words of Ram\u00f3n de Campoamor; words that I was lucky to double-check in Google before making another mistake, as I was convinced they were by Calder\u00f3n de la Barca \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this traitorous world
nothing is true or false:
everything is according to the colour<\/em>
of the glass with which one looks<\/em>.<\/p>Ram\u00f3n de Campoamor<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This whole thing about there not being anything true or false may be a bit frustrating, because our brain prefers categorical answers: good or bad, right or wrong, black or white. But in reality, it gives us a great deal of freedom; it gives us a whole colour palette to choose from. Both the great wise men of old times and our modern psychologists explain to us that in the majority of cases, our problems are not caused by the things that happen to us, but by the way we interpret them; the main cause of our suffering are the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us. \u00bfWhat if we told ourselves a different story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u00b4s the good news: once we realize that truth is very often a matter of points of view, and that it\u00b4s not THE truth but MY truth that I get to see, then our map of possibilities increases exponentially, and we can allow ourselves to reinterpret those situations in ways that help us, instead of making us suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, next time you\u00b4re faced with a situation that makes you feel angry, frustrated or sad, I encourage you to ask yourself what other versions of \"the truth\" can exist that are different from yours. What are you assuming? What other perspectives are you not seeing? What meaning are you attaching to that situation that it doesn\u00b4t really have, or doesn\u00b4t need to have? What other meaning could you find for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, the quote in question deserves a post of its own; it\u00b4s on Instagram, and it\u00b4s true that I published it without double-checking whether it was by Einstein or not (lesson learned). <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El otro d\u00eda me pas\u00f3 una cosa muy curiosa: estaba en un curso de formaci\u00f3n, y pusieron una transparencia con una cita de Einstein que me pareci\u00f3 s\u00faper chula, as\u00ed que decid\u00ed publicarla en Instagram. Escrib\u00ed un post con la cita en ingl\u00e9s, y otro con la traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol. Hasta ah\u00ed, todo bien. 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