How to feel bad and be wrong - by Adam Mastroianni
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photo cred: my dad The human mind is like a kid who got a magic kit for Christmas: it only knows like four tricks. What looks like an infinite list of biases and heuristics is in fact just the same few sleights of hand done over and over again. Uncovering those tricks has been psychology’s greatest achievement, a discovery so valuable that it’s won the Nobel Prize twice (1, 2), and in economics, no less, since there is no Nobel Prize for psychology.1 And yet, the best trick in the whole kit is one that most people have never heard of. It goes like this: “when you encounter a hard question,…
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