Perhaps as you read over these biases you accepted the consistently irrational tendencies we all share. Or maybe, you thought to yourself, “Well, I can see that most people would have that bias, but I don’t think I have that one.” Well, I’ve got another one for you. Bias blind spot refers to the tendency to believe one is immune to the same biases

It is not hard to imagine that if Aristotle had possessed our software framework, he would have found it even more useful than his habit model. What are habits, after all, if not a collection of if-then statements determining one’s behavior? The sum of these habits, what Aristotle called character, we call software. The way your mind is structured

In the past, we humans have learned to control the world outside us, but we had very little control over the world inside us.

People who have learned of these biases and the methods for countering them often refer to themselves as critical thinkers, freethinkers, or rationalists. These people often make use of the debiasing methods we have covered to attempt to see the world more clearly, and these methods can be effective in the right circumstances. But the

When you have cultivated mindfulness, life becomes richer, more vivid, more satisfying, and you don’t take everything that happens so personally. Attention plays a more appropriate role within the greater context of a broad and powerful awareness. You’re fully present, happier, and at ease, because you’re not so easily caught up in the stories and

choose to identify as the designer of your mind rather than as your mind itself.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Many of us would love to program our minds to work according to our preferences just as we might program computer software. Our organic brains, however, do not work in exactly the same way computers do. They don't simply do what they are told; we have to understand and work around their nature if we want to change their programming. Rather than

But we’ll work our way there gradually. Modern self-help books often center around a few major algorithms to be banished - automatic tendencies like blaming yourself when things go wrong, making assumptions without evidence, or retreating whenever you experience fear. But the psychitectural perspective takes a step back. Instead of simply providing