You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind
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You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind

Growth often looks like inconsistency from the outside. It is not. It is a person paying attention.

Avik Chakraborty22 Jul 2026 · 1 min read

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We praise consistency and quietly punish people who change. But some of the healthiest moves a person makes look, from the outside, like flip-flopping.

Leaving the job you fought to get. Ending the thing everyone admired. Changing your mind about who you want to be.

Changing course is not weakness. It is evidence you were still paying attention.

The version of you that made the old choice had the information they had. The version of you now knows more. Honouring that is not betrayal. It is growth.

Written byAvik Chakraborty

For the PodHub Journal. Stories and research on the mind, from the team behind the network's podcasts.

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