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133. How delusions can be good for us | Stuart Vyse

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Are You Overconfident About Your Ideas?

Is there something in evolutionary psychology in our being so sort of er confident about our ideologies and stuff, and why we stick with them so much? Have you given much thought to that? Well, there's a lot of, i mean, obviously do a lot of self protective things. We we like to believe that our ideas are right, that we are smart, and so forth. So that does lend itself to pushing aside conflicting information, confirmation bias and and so on. It makes you feel better if we haven't wasted our time with stupid ideas, and if our ideas are valid. You need to be able to reject when you'ren ingly, youre proven wrong. And,

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