Tim Urban
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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to your primitive mind when you change your mind or when someone disagrees with you in a smart way.
So there's that huge force in us, which is confirmation bias.
That's where that comes from.
It's this desire to keep believing what we believe and this desire to also fit in with our beliefs, to believe what the people around us believe.
and that can be fun in some ways.
We all like the same sports team, and we're all super into it, and we're all gonna be biased about that call together.
I mean, it's not always bad, but it's not a very smart way to be, and you're actually, you're working kind of for those ideas.
Those ideas are like your boss, and you're working so hard to keep believing those.
Those ideas are, you know, a really good paper comes in that you read that conflicts with those ideas, and you will do all this work to say that paper's bullshit, because...
And you're a faithful employee of those ideas.
Now, the higher mind, to me, the same party that can override the Skittles, can override this and can search for something that makes a lot more sense, which is truth.
Because what rational being wouldn't want to know the truth?
Who wants to be delusional?
And so there's this tug of war because...
The higher mind doesn't identify with ideas.
Why would you?
It's an experiment you're doing.
It's a mental model.
And if someone can come over and say, you're wrong, you'd say, where?
Show me, show me.
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