Kyrtin Atreides on LinkedIn: An easily forgotten factor that dominates our lives is the “Cognitive…

Psychologists call this “tacit knowledge.” Widely understood as a key to human interaction—maybe even the DNA of interpersonal exchange—it depends on firsthand observation and interaction: sifting through the slowly accruing sediment of mutual experience. It’s the inverse of explicit knowledge—things you can learn about someone from a resumé or Wik

To understand ourselves is one thing, to be able to simultaneously distance ourselves from our worldview is another thing. Our capacity to self-transcend determines the extent to which we can reflect on an issue from afar and disentangle ourselves from our dearly held beliefs, emotions, and certainties23.