mind traps
“In driver’s training we were taught to identify our visual blind spots and eliminate them with the help of mirrors and sensors. In life (...) we need to learn to recognize our cognitive blind spots and revise our thinking accordingly”
from Think Again by Adam Grant
Our bias is to always add more
We fall victim to the fat-cat syndrome,32 resting on our laurels instead of pressure-testing our beliefs.
fat-cat syndrome
In hindsight bias, people who know the outcome of a situation believe the outcome should have been easy to predict in advance.
hindsight bias
The trouble with error is that we have a natural tendency to dismiss it. When Kevin Dunbar analyzed the data from his in vivo studies of microbiology labs, one of his most remarkable findings was just how many experiments produced results that were genuinely unexpected. More than half of the data collected by the researchers deviated significantly
... See more“The trouble with error is that we have a natural tendency to dismiss it.”
“The placebo effect, confirmation bias, and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon are actually the bottom rungs of genuine mystical/magical experience …” —> hmm.. interesting take, so-called “mind trap” considered as “mind gate”
The faster you’re moving the more you’re in fear. The more you’re in fear, the more you’re thinking about yourself. The more you’re thinking about yourself, the less compassion and kindness you have for others.
from this Reel.
and that is why urgency/speed and fear are so great mind control tools, they reduce our cognition to “survival mode” program and nothing more
The spotlight effect is what happens when we imagine that our lives are performative, or “on display” for others to consume.
spotlight effect
