The Cabrera Lab Podcast #2: Love Reality
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Apr 3, 2024 Dive into a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to truly love reality. Discover the significance of humility and curiosity in overcoming biases that cloud thinking. Learn the dangers of ignoring present facts through vivid analogies, like pilots and mountain goats. Hear how cultivating inquiry can enhance knowledge and decision-making, while also recognizing the web of causality in complex problems. With insights on adapting to feedback, the episode emphasizes the value of staying grounded in reality.
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Begin With A Question Mark
- Loving reality requires humility and curiosity to admit "I don't know."
- That question mark opens space to learn instead of locking you into false certainty.
Reality Bias Is The Mother Bias
- Reality bias is the root bias: we enter situations already convinced we know.
- That pre-commitment blocks learning and fuels other biases like confirmation bias.
Bad Detective, Bad Outcomes
- Derek compares a biased thinker to a detective who declares the culprit before investigating.
- That premature certainty makes you a terrible detective of life.