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Trusting 'too much' in the feeling of being on the correct side of anything can be very dangerous.
This ' Internal senes of rightness' that we all experience so often is not a reliable guide to what is really going on in the real world. But, we act like it is and we stop entertaining the possibility that we could be wrong. We believe we just 'perfectly reflect reality' and when we feel that way we’ve got a problem to solve which is - how we are going to explain all of those people who disagree? It turns out most of us explain those people the same way by resorting to a series of unfortunate assumptions: 1. THE IGNORANCE ASSUMPTION :: " Others don’t have access to the same information that we do and when we generously share that information with them they’re going to see the light and come over to our side ". (when it turns out they have all the same facts that we do and they still disagree with us we move on to a second assumption) which is.. they are idiots. 2. THE IDIOCY ASSUMPTION :: " If they have all the right pieces of the puzzle, then they are too dumb to put them together correctly ". (When that doesn’t work - When it turns out they have the same facts we do & they are actually pretty smart), we move on to the next. 3. THE EVIL ASSUMPTION :: " They know the truth and they are deliberately distorting it for their own malevolent purpose. This is a catastrophe this attachment to.. "our sense of rightness!”. - Kathryn Schulz - I of V : Awareness Test
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We all use heuristics to make everyday decisions, but sometimes they blind us to the truth. So we need to do something that doesn’t come easy: accept that our ideas might be wrong. Learn more about ELISA test here..
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