The burden of skepticism :: Four levels

Summary-

 What is skepticism? It’s nothing very esoteric. We encounter it every day. Basically It’s doubting on someone’s thoughts and ideas. Let’s take an example, while buying a second hand car, we doubt on each and every subject matter related with it. But skepticism is also not good in every field. Such as: medical field and scientific field because they are related with human and social factors.

                                            In a society there exist two types of personalities; critical thinker and creative thinker. Creative thinker develops new ideas and blogs relating to science, commerce and technology and critical thinker are those who criticize on the theories of creative thinker. They show the negative impacts of those ideas of creative thinker. If we are only skeptical then no ideas make it through us. We will never learn anything new. We will become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. But every now and then may be once in hundred classes, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If we are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, we are going to miss or resent it, and either way we will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

                                        On the other hand if we are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in us, then we cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones. If all ideas have equal validity then we are lost because then, it seems to us, no ideas have any validity at all.

Interpretation- 

The main interpretation of this text is to aware the people about pros and cons of skepticism. The writer through this essay tries to tell us that we must be skeptic only I critical situation. If we start doubting in all the areas then we will gain nothing. But if we don’t be skeptic also then we cannot distinguish between right and wrong. Today scientist are more successful because they adopt others theories in need. Same as we also should believe in other ideas which are based on real life situation experiments.