Cognitive biases are predictable patterns in the way people think that can keep you from objectively weighing evidence and changing your mind
With mental illnesses for which a symptom is intrusive thoughts, the brain slowly carves more and more valleys making it easier for those thoughts to reappear. This is not only present in mental illness, though. Opinions may cause these valleys making it harder and harder to change.
Instead of reevaluating what they’ve believed up until now, people tend to reject the incompatible evidence.
Now fact-checking is not treated as fact-checking, but arguments
People form opinions based on emotions, such as fear, contempt and anger, rather than relying on facts.
I talked in the last article about "wise mind" from DBT where one needs to use both emotion and logic. Too much of one, especially too much of emotion can be nearly impossible to control. Once you're too much in one, it can be difficult to lean into the other.
little bit of reasoning goes a long way toward forming accurate beliefs
In DBT we learned a skill we called "wise mind" where you acknowledge the emotions you're feeling, but mix that with logic. You shouldn't be 100% emotion nor 100% logic.
According to this view, political passions essentially make people unreasonable
Politics, while people like to pretend are just political, many times reflect the morals of someone. When someone has beliefs so strong that they reflect morals, it is often difficult to keep emotions out of it. Ethics follows logic, morals follow emotion.
So how many big ideas emerge from spills, crashes, failed experiments and blind stabs?
NORMALIZE MISTAKES!!!! That's how everything's invented.
Most interesting were the “super-encounterers,” who reported that happy surprises popped up wherever they looked.
Reminds me of the movie Beetlejuice how Lydia can see the "strange and unusual" because she herself is "strange and unusual" and she pays attention to the world.
At its birth, serendipity meant a skill rather than a random stroke of good fortune.
This is interesting because when you google the word, all the synonyms are "chance" and "luck" which are very much not skill-based. While similar, these words don't mean the same thing.
Squito
hilarious name