What can we trust?

We can’t get many fully trustworthy information about things or topics we are interested in but, as far as we should act and take decisions, we need to trust something, because our acts and decisions are necessarily based in specific information or beliefs. 

We are full of doubts, what we need to take decisions anyway

Why information is not fully trustworthy?

Excess of information, due to Information Technologies and excess of propaganda.

Internet has allowed us to publish any information online and leave it available to anyone who can browse on the net. That means that a big amount of information is available right now, including this post. It sounds amazing, but all this information can't be find out and checked by us. Make a search in the browser, you will find thousands or millions of references. 

People who is providing us with information is interested in making us believe someting that is good for them, but not necessarily for us. So, companies are interested in selling  their products to us, and probably they are not so interested in selling the right products for us. Politicians can be interested in our vote and our support more than the right management for us. 

Can we trust this people if we can guess they are not fully interested in provide us with good information?

What can we do?

We need to trust something to take decisions. We need to buy things, we need the choose studies or we need to invest our savings. No matter the right or the wrong information we have to do it, we need it. 

Probably, we don't trust completely the information we have to take any of these decisions. We are not sure about this product quality, we are not sure about this career opportunities or we are not sure about this investment profitability. 

Probably, the seller wants to sell you this product anyway, the university wants you to study there anyway and the bank wants you to buy this investment product anyway. All them are interested anyway. 

In this cases, we can check a group of alternatives that are offered to us, choose the most interesting one and try it. We can win or we can learn something, but doing nothing just to avoid being wrong is not the right option. Neither you win nor you learn.