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If you don't have an awareness of your own weaknesses, you will find it difficult to properly wield your strengths.pic.twitter.com/djkqX6pWSR
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https://twitter.com/BenjaminGJW/status/1088493441758179328 …
If you don't have an awareness of your own weaknesses, you will find it difficult to properly wield your strengths.pic.twitter.com/djkqX6pWSR
Here's an aesthetic poster. Print it out and stick it on your wall if you have to. Anything to remind yourself. But why do cognitive biases exist anyway? They're essentially approximation tools that you use to conserve energy and make decisions with greater ease...pic.twitter.com/kRP6bm0mt7
Oftentimes, these are incredibly useful. Could you imagine if for every menial decision you had to comb logically through all possible options and outcomes, and come to the most rational decision possible? You'd probably go mad in a grocery store - not to mention tinder.
Unfortunately our cognitive biases (tho they've been very successful in allowing us to survive and coordinate for so long) pose problems for our complex and connected society. Unfounded opinions can be shared at the touch of a button to thousands, and shared without thought too
Our tribal biases (in-group, out-group etc.) are now on a huge scale thanks to digital connections across the globe. And these influence policy, personal actions, the economy, etc. Our shortcomings are magnified, and they affect everyone.
Further, we are attracted to conflict, controversy, and drama. Because of the outcry that envelops these topics, we overstate their importance and fixate an unnecessary amount of attention on them. For our ancestors, noise and drama might've posed a risk to their lives.
For us, not so much. And those who side with rationalism, who notice the methods at play, are not at the forefront of these debates. Let's face it, rational explanations for things are simply not that exciting. There's no passion behind them, no good and evil, no emotion
We don't want bland - we want exciting. Something to get mad at, something to rally behind. But on this large scale, the most important issues often get neglected. Petty disagreements with little-to-no consequence dominate our media platforms.
We'll likely never eliminate all our cognitive biases - at least not any time soon (and by that time we may not be recognisable as humans). So the key is to understand them, then recognise when they emerge in your own thoughts and in others. Then respond by re-evaluating.
Little by little, we might make the world less erroneous. And little by little, we might just get somewhere.
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