My intuition isn’t any less fallible than yours. It’s always getting things wrong. I have, however, learned never to be ashamed of it. I don’t disdain my mistakes, I don’t push them aside, because I don’t think that they betray my intellectual inferiority or some cognitive biases hardwired in my brain. On the contrary. Nothing’s more exciting than

But a human brain is a flawed lens that can understand its own flaws—its systematic errors, its biases—and apply second-order corrections to them.