How to manage the attentional bias
- Pay attention to your attention. Whenever you feel your attention is being automatically pulled into a specific direction, ask yourself why this is the case.
- Go beyond the most obvious answer. If you find the answer to a question completely obvious, chances are some of your thinking is based on heuristics that may not be the only way to approach the problem at hand.
- Cultivate open-mindedness. Being open-minded is not something you just decide to become. It can be cultivated by asking good questions, reading books outside of your usual interests, and connecting with people who think differently.
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