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#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The simplest explanation is almost always the least informed

We think we're picking the simplest explanation. What we're actually doing is defining our own preferred explanation as the simple one. The person who has the simplest explanation is almost always the least informed, he says. So any time i see somebody say, well, let's fix the economy, all we have to do is x, that's almost always wrong.

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