Sublime

Question:

psychologist Daniel Kahneman, studied human decision making from the “heuristics and biases” model

asymmetric paternalism.

The less frame

Clarity on how to think without clarity on how to act can leave people unmoved.

“When information became more widely disseminated,” Ouderkirk told me, “it became a lot easier to be broader than a specialist, to start combining things in new ways.”

Alas, there’s much more to common sense than taxonomy.

perceptual narrowing.

Early on, he had fallen victim to what psychologists call identity foreclosure—when we settle prematurely on a sense of self without enough due diligence, and close our minds to alternative selves.