"What he lacked is a crucial nutrient for the mind: humility. The antidote to getting stuck on Mount Stupid is to take regular doses of it... While humility is a permeable filter that takes life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of."
"The goal is not to be wrong more often, it's to recognize that we're all wrong more often than we'd like to admit, and the more we deny it, the deeper the hole we build for ourselves."
Part of the polarization problem... binary bias. "It's a basic human tendency to seek clarify and closure by simplifying a complex ___ into two categories. To paraphrase humorist Robert Benchley, there are two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."
"When someone knowledgeable admits uncertainty, it surprises people, and they end up paying more attention to the substance of the argument. Of course, a potential challenge of nuance is that it doesn't seem to go viral. Attention spans are short. We only have a few seconds to capture eyeballs with a catchy headline. It's true that complexity doesn't always make for good sound bites, but it does seed good conversations."
"It turns out that although perfectionists are more likely than their peers to ace school, they don't perform better than their colleagues at work."
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