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The ignorance of our own ignorance
The main reason for the ignorance of our own ignorance is that we don’t need to know how everyday things work. They just do. We are used to seeing them wherever we go.
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Superficial information consumption
We browse the top of news items, we choose clickbait-y headlines and we allow tweets to inform us of global political moves. We tap into viral videos, we listen to soundbites and agree with memes.
This is a superficial way of ingesting knowledge. We never...
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Illusion of explanatory depth
We think understand complex phenomena with far greater precision and depth than we rally do. We are are subject to an illusion.
Believing we know more than we actually do can lead us to prejudice without us even knowing.
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Sharing knowledge makes us think we are smart
Immediate access to knowledge makes us all feel like experts, when in reality we're not. And we certainly don’t consider ourselves to be stupid when we can research anything.
But it’s not just the rapid access to information that makes us fall for the Illusion of Expl...
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Known unknowns and unknown unknowns
- Known unknowns are the things we know we don’t know about (space travel, brain surgery, etc.) We can learn anytime about them but we’re not really expected to know about them.
- Unknown unknowns are the things we think we should know about, but we ...
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Overcoming Our Ignorance Of Our Ignorance
To overcome the paradox of overcoming our own ignorance is itself a contradiction due to the fact that we need to look for something that we cannot see.
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You Don't Own That - Day 120
- Marcus Aurelius used to say that we don't own anything and that even our lives are held in trust.
- We may claw and fight and work to own things, but those things can be taken away in a second. The same goes for other things we like to think are "ours" but are equally precarious: our ...
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