Confirmation Bias
The next step in developing new perspectives is solving our confirmation bias, our tendency to choose information that confirms our already existing beliefs.
We search only for evidence that supports our ideas and we see only what we are able to comprehend.
This is why overcoming confirmation bias is so important in our development because otherwise everything we percieve becomes support for our worldview.
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Confirmation Bias
Is our tendency to cherry-pick information that confirms our existing beliefs or ideas.
To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view. And we manage to find that evidence that confirms what we want to believe.
Confirmation Bias
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- We often filter out or ignore any information that contradicts our curr...
Fighting Confirmation Bias
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