3. What Are Your Blind Spots?

The important thing is just that we’re self-aware about our weaknesses. Otherwise, we become enslaved to our mind’s faulty mechanisms. Our minds are flawed in many ways-

• Our ability to predict our thoughts and feelings in the future is poor. 
• We constantly overestimate ourselves.
• Contradictory evidence can often make us surer of our position rather than inspire us to question it.
• Our attention naturally only focuses on things that already cohere to our pre-existing beliefs.
• Most of us, when given the opportunity, will tell small lies to improve our results.