• While gathering new information, the Scientist Mindset goes for unbiased and broad information gathering. 
• The Sports Fan Mindset has confirmation bias so cherry-picks his information to suit his narrative or the outcome he is rooting for.
• The At...

It is a process. As each of us is essentially getting better in our thinking, maturing to grow up psychologically, we are climbing to the higher rungs of the Psych Spectrum.

While we are in the process of going towards the Higher Mindset, we can never discard the primitive mindset totally.

Each of us looks at things differently, and it's largely based on our thinking patterns, education levels, inherent bias, self-identity, and real, first-hand experiences.

If we are low on the Psych Spectrum, our Primitive Mind is in charge, which means:

• We are short-sighted
• We act small-minded and  emotional
• We behave in an egoistic way.
• We lack self-awareness.
• We are uncompassionate.
• We show hypocrisy.
• We...

Truth-based mindset judges others by the way they think (HOW), while confirmation based mindset judges others by WHAT they think.

Truth based mindsets also have original viewpoints based on actual, objective reasoning, derived from the concept of first principles.

Confirmation-based m...

Human beings tend to have two kinds of conflicting mindsets:

• The Higher Mind, the conscious truth-seeking mind, has made human beings an advanced civilization.
• The Primitive Mind is our hardwired, thousands-of-years-old survivalist part, the one that's still stuck in the dark a...

Our Higher Mind and the Primitive Mind always have a tug-of-war like conflict. The degree of the conflict can be placed in a spectrum, which is called a Psych Spectrum.

If the Higher mind is in control, we are placed higher in the Psych Spectrum and have the Primitive Mind under check. 

1. The Scientist, for whom Truth is important. It approaches anything with objectivity and accepts that there are things still unknown.
2. The Sports Fan, for whom along with the truth, confirmation to his/her beliefs is also important; initial beliefs are the right ones and any new inform...

The Unbiased scientific thinker strives to arrive at the truth using knowledge and conviction in equal measure. His vision is clear but he believes that obtaining real knowledge is hard and the world is a complicated, foggy place.

Whereas when we go to the bottom of the Psych Spectrum, we s...