Status: Tags: Links: Worldview - Decision-Making
Beliefs
Principles
- Smarter people are more prone to supporting previously held beliefs, as they naturally find evidence and think rationally
- Also prone to blind-spot bias, where a person can be aware of other people’s biases but not themselves
- More prone to manipulating information to support their beliefs
- We should test our beliefs through Skepticism to distinguish valid beliefs from unrealistic ones
Cultivation
- We believe we make our beliefs by hearing something, evaluating it, and then forming it, but in reality, we mostly accept them and fail to question them
- When put under time pressure, we tend to guess things are true
- We can truly consider our beliefs by practicing Skepticism
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