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#095 - George MacGill - Mental Models 102 - The Decision Strikes Back

Modern Wisdom

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The Fundamental Attribution Error

When it's about yourself, you always have the excuse self serving bias. It's called the fundamental attribution error when you attribute others behaviors to their motivations rather than to external factors. So I cut someone up in traffic. It's because I'm in a rush. Someone else cuts me up in traffic,. It's because they're a cunt. Yeah. And I find it very, very difficult if you actually try. The way I find it most useful is to look at other people, look at stuff that I like or might disagree. They need to stop doing that, but something I don't like personally. Instead of trying to fight them, just use them. When you just identify as

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