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123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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How to Avoid Information Actively

There are many ways we can avoid information. Motivated skepticism is a really great way to do this. Another strategy that Lowenstein and Hagman mention is something called active forgetting. You might not be able to deliberately forget things, but only tending to the parts of your memory garden that you prefer will over time ensure that the rest degrades more quickly.

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