How to improve social media - Part I
In simple terms, we rationally evaluate things that do not intersect with our worldview and emotionally evaluate those that do, as part of our ongoing effort to maintain a belief in our own “rightness.”
Daniel Crosby • The Behavioral Investor
There is an objective reality, but none of us can perceive it in totality without doing a little work. Is it any wonder we make suboptimal decisions? — Sidebar: Perspective-taking in psychology
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
more complicated (or random) than they realize; b. the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality); and c. the overvaluation of factual information and the handicap of authoritative and learned p
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto Book 2)
By being radically truthful and radically transparent, we could see that we all have terribly incomplete and/or distorted perspectives. This isn’t unique to Bridgewater—you would recognize the same thing if you could see into the heads of the people around you. As explained in Understand That People Are Wired Very Differently, people tend to see th
... See moreRay Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
The point is simply that as people become better informed, they should start to converge on the truth, wherever it happens to be. Instead, we see the opposite pattern—as people get better informed, they diverge.
Julia Galef • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Look at situations from as many points of view as possible. Consider the possibility that seemingly different or contradictory beliefs may be valid. If something doesn’t make sense to you, then you’re missing something.