How should we think about our thinking and make it more accurate? The virtue of intellectual humility
"David Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, has devoted much of his career to studying the flaws in human thinking."
About what he's learned along the way he says: "If there is a psychological principle that I think people should know more about, it’s the principle of naive realism. [It means that] even though your belief about the way the world is just seems so compelling or so self-evident, it doesn’t mean that it really is [true].
"Whenever we reach a conclusion, it just seems like it’s the right one. In fact, a lot of what we see and conclude about the world is authored by our brains. Once you keep that in mind, hopefully, it does give you pause, to think about how you might be wrong, or to think about how another person might have a case. And you might want to hear them out."
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