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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

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Why Is It Easier to Over Intellectualize Stuff?

I don't think anything he says here is talking about motivated reasoning, which is heoo, i was extrapolating from what he's right. The more i can learn to reason and bring up arguments and and defend my case, the easier it is to reafy my default settings. All of those tools, i think, are importantly used if you can step outside your default and know that you're not using them in a purely egotistical way. I all i'm saying is, i don't see that here. And when as an inability to step outside of your own desire to be right, you've now, but where do you get the motivated reasoning in tertlake?

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