100 - Paul Bloom: The Psychology of Everything
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Illusion of Understanding
There's something particularly disturbing about Christ of Knowledge, where you learn about a concept from Freud or from other people. It makes sense to you and it becomes so self-evident that you don't even see the concept in everyday life because you just can't. And there's also like an illusion of understanding that I feel myself falling into all the time: Every time I learn a useful psychological construct, I'm like, now I get people. Now I understand what they are all like. But then I learn the next concept and I'mlike, I had no idea. But now I know. And then I learning the next and it just keeps happening. Do you relate to this?
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