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SFH #39: Our Brains Hide Our Blind Spots

Why we think we know more than we do and how to address it 🧠

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Brian Hain
Apr 22, 2021
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We had a running joke in my household captured in a statement I came up with: "Let me see if I'm right? Yep, I'm right." I would use that statement to poke fun at the idea that we think we have all the correct answers available to us. I modeled the overconfident statement after my dad, and surely enough, I embodied the same incredulous pattern. There's …

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