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7 rules-of-thumb for daily living.
Nothing exact about it.
We see in others what we don’t like about ourselves.
“I can’t stand Barry, he’s just so arrogant”.
You get the picture.
If you’re a hypocrite, there is nothing more comforting than pointing out someone else who’s a bigger hypocrite.
Dunning Kruger Effect
The cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. More simply, we’re rarely as smart as we like think we are.
Keep this in mind next time you become enamoured with your own genius.
Similar to the Bunnings Kruger Effect. Bunnings is a large hardware chain in Australia. Just because you can buy the materials, doesn’t mean you can built it.
“Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.” Robert Heinlein
I’m hearing a lot of talk about critical thinking at the moment. Curiously, a lot of people doing it are expressing ideas that are entirely predictable, given their world view.
From Will Smith to Ukraine, many have already decided what their position is. They then go about developing arguments that…
