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It is important that we listen to lawyers, but only for a second opinion. Your opinion ought to be the first – and the last.
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…heuristics – the mental shortcuts we take to make decisions and form opinions.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to our own knowledge and opinions, we often favor feeling right over being right.
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In everyday life, we make many diagnoses of our own, ranging from whom we hire to whom we marry. We need to develop the habit of forming our own second opinion.
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We all have blind spots in our knowledge and opinions. The bad news is that they can leave us blind to our blindness, which gives us false confidence…
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In too many domains of our lives, we never gain enough expertise to question our opinions or discover what we don’t know.
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Attachment. That’s what keeps us from recognizing when your opinions are off the mark and rethinking them.”
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Our opinions can become so sacred that we grow hostile to the mere thought of being wrong, and the totalitarian ego leaps in to silence counterarguments, squash contrary evidence, and close the door on learning.
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If you want to be a better forecaster today, it helps to let go of your commitment to the opinions you held yesterday.
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It’s common for people who lack power or status to shift into politician mode, suppressing their dissenting views in favor of conforming to the HIPPO – the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.
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