Overcoming Our Ignorance Of Our Ignorance

• Known Knowns: Things we know, like how to ride a bicycle.
• Known Unknowns: Stuff we don’t understand, like quantum physics.
• Unknown Knowns: Things we know but never realized that we knew it. Most of it comes naturally to us...

1. Do not ridicule them, as it can make them defensive.
2. Provide examples and gently guide their minds towards the possibility that their belief may not be true.
3. Being humble, unbiased and objective are important values that can be nurtured in all, especially youngsters.
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We are heavily blind-spotted with regards to our unknown unknowns as we continue to believe our own rhetoric and start to project it on others.

Our delusion is further complicated by the fact that even if people point to us our problem, we are unable to believe them, due to our lack of em...

As most people do not like ambiguity and uncertainty, they are much more comfortable in knowing something even if it is completely false.

Knowing something wrong is better than nothing, as our beliefs let us make sense of the world, which is subjective by every measure.

If people are made to develop certain basic and related skills, including foundational understanding in an objective way, they perform better at certain tasks.

Being aware of the blindspots that one can have, the emotional awareness that one may not have, or about the natu...