Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
August 9th, 2007
I’m currently reading Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking. I’m interested in finding out both the flaws in my own thinking as well as some of the “why” behind how others think some of the crazy things they do, in order to better frame my own arguments.
The author, Thomas Kida, points out 6 reasons why people believe things which aren’t true:
· We prefer stories to statistics.
· We seek to confirm, not to question, our ideas.
· We rarely appreciate the role of chance and coincidence in shaping events.
· We sometimes misperceive the world around us.
· We tend to oversimplify our thinking.
· Our memories are often inaccurate.
Updates will come when I get further along.
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