You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly
Hidden Brain
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Are We Having These Gaps in Self Knowledge?
Mito: Why is it that our internal mechanisms, which most people imagine are very finely tuned to perceive reality accurately, why are they failing us? Mito: There are some who argue that it can actually be functional to overestimate the impact of future events. We have found same kind ofa overestimation of impact even for events we can't control, like sporting events. I think our unconscious, it's our unconscious that's doing the work to reduce the impact of events. And by definition, we don't know what our unconscience is going to do in the future.
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