A conversation about knowledge, certainty and the courage to discover you might be wrong.
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A modern salon for curious people, complicated questions and conversations that don't fit neatly into a comment section.
No expertise required. No assigned reading. Just bring your curiosity.
September 12
The Mood Room at Ironworks
Doors 7 PM / Salon 8 PM
Tickets from $28.99
Something to think about
What does it mean to know?
We have more information at our fingertips than at any other point in human history. Answers are everywhere. But having the answer isn't necessarily the same thing as understanding it.
Knowing asks something more of us: inquiry, context, connection, evidence—and the willingness to discover that what we thought we knew might be wrong.
Which raises an uncomfortable question:
Why do we cling to answers instead of questions?
The Comfort of Certainty is an evening about the beliefs we hold, the stories we inherit, and the strange courage it takes to admit: I might be wrong.
Being right feels really good
We're constantly making sense of the world. We sort, label, interpret, decide. It's how we find our footing.
But knowing isn't just collecting information. We interpret evidence, connect it to what we already understand, decide which sources we trust, and build explanations about how the world works.
And sometimes, we're wrong.
What might become possible if, every once in a while, we got curious about the things we're most certain of?
Certainty feels like safety.
But the more attached we become to being right, the harder it becomes to stay curious.
This isn't an argument for believing nothing. It's an invitation to examine the space between conviction and certainty — and whether intellectual humility might actually make our thinking stronger.
Bring your opinions. Bring your doubts, too.
- Is having the answer the same as understanding?
- What makes something knowledge rather than belief?
- Why does uncertainty make us so uncomfortable?
- What would it take to convince you that you're wrong?
- Can we hold strong convictions without becoming certain?
We aren't gathering to arrive at the same answer. We're gathering to get better at asking the question.
Resources
No homework required
But if you'd like to wander a little deeper before we meet:
READ
Think Again, Adam Grant
On the value of reconsidering what we think we know.
The Scout Mindset, Julia Galef
On learning to see what's actually there instead of defending what we already believe.
WATCH
The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On what gets lost when one version of reality becomes the only one we can see.
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