Welcome to "Need to be right"
If you have done chapter 1 and 2, you will by now understand Mark Twain's wisdom:
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so".
It's easy to get appalled at how naturally biased we humans are, with our 180+ types of bias triggers in our thinking process. Know that there are reasons for having these cognitive functions. I call them the mind's "blow-out prevention" (BOP) valve. BOP is the device used in oil and gas drilling to avoid blow up of the well, built up by pressure. The more you overload your brain with information and overthinking, the more your BOP (cognitive bias effect) will kick in to alleviate a build up of pressure on your brain. It becomes a trap if you use these bias for self-serving reasons. If you use it to make a better world, as cheesy as it sounds, then you create new possibilities. One that is much better than the Iphone X.
The biases have been summarized into four main categories of why we have them:
Chapter 1 - Information overload
Chapter 2 - Need for meaning
Chapter 3 - Need to be right / and right now
Chapter 4 - Need to remember (and recall)
In this chapter we explore the effects of our need to be constantly right and right, right now. Sounds right?
Enjoy your brain,
Uma Gopaldass
Founder / Principle Advisor
Leading Lotus
Out of the murkiness rises the Lotus - with Clarity
Credits to to Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet by Buster Benson , science journals, academic researches and the list goes on.