Death grips 🥀
"God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."
—Facebook founding president Sean Parker
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The human mind's natural operations endlessly blind us to important truths about ourselves.
We "see" ourselves as action heroes in an epic, blockbuster film. 🎥 🎬
In our imaginations, we have far more control over the events around us than we ever possibly could.
- We struggle to "see" beyond our individually experienced realities.
- We're naturally talented at deflecting messages and signals that threaten how we perceive ourselves and the world.
"The human mind is designed to be both a scientist and an attorney," writes physicist Leonard Mlodinow in a book on perception and psychology. "[It's] both a conscious seeker of objective truth and an unconscious, impassioned advocate for what we want to believe."
I often wonder about my own fallacies and illusions and cognitive biases and errors that smolder and crackle beyond my conscious awareness.
- I'm suspicious for no reason of people who drive Nissans.
- I won’t use Grubhub because it sounds vaguely like a fetish site.
We're not just talking about race, gender, and orientation biases. We're talking about biases and errors that continuously threaten to undermine our own stated wishes.
And they can't just be turned off.
An important moment in one's quest through Alcoholics Anonymous is internalizing – not merely hearing – that our control over the world can't possibly be what we imagine it to be.
Our minds also fool us into believing there's far more certainty in the world than could ever be the case.
To get my first 30 days without a drink, I had to loosen my death grip on the universe.
- next time Who's right about me? Who's wrong?
- listening The Knife "Heartbeats"
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