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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one."
—Voltaire
> the undoing | seductive
Among their many findings, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky investigated why our minds automatically rearranged our memories to make better sense of the world.
This happens at the expense of truth and accuracy.
According to biographer Michael Lewis, Amos Tversky once told a room full of historians that "the mind arranges historical facts in ways that make past events feel a lot less uncertain, and a lot more predictable, than they actually are."
Tversky and Kahneman once had ambitions of teaching kids "how to detect their own seductive but misleading intuition and correct for it."
Adults, they said, were too self-deceptive. ꩜꩜꩜
Our choices are often based on "delusional optimism" without us consciously understanding events in our lives that way.
The solution, said Kahneman and Tversky?
Create small openings in our lives and give our conscious minds time to examine our thoughts and actions for reason and logic before making the next move. While it might take bits of time from our day, thinking smarter could save us time, too.
Besides, feeling like we're in a hurry all the time is just another psychological condition.
It's known as "hurry sickness."
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