Description A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast.
We see what we want to see.
From tribalism in politics, to wishful thinking and rationalizing in our personal lives, humans are natural-born motivated reasoners.
We have what Julia Galef calls a soldier mindset: the drive to defend ideas we want to believe, and shoot do.