3 Mental Pitfalls Even the Smartest of People Fall Prey To
Just being aware of these can be a massive advantage in life
Being smart doesn’t shield you from the pitfalls of the inherently imperfect mind — in fact, it can (sometimes) even make you more susceptible to such snags.
So, just being aware of these pitfalls can give you incredible leverage in life. While you won’t always be able to circumvent them, the few times you do will yield massive rewards.
Having known plenty of smart folks in my life, I’ve noticed 3 common mental hiccups — not to mention that I’m pretty smart myself and have experienced them firsthand.
There goes the first pitfall.
The Grand-Daddy of Biases
The Actor-Observer bias, Dunning Kruger effect, Sunk-Cost fallacy, the self-serving bias — almost all cognitive biases are descendants of one burly patriarch.
This great ancestor goes by the name of “Ego-Centrism” — the human mind’s addiction to stroke the ego in any and every situation.
You can’t even trust your own memory since it’s rigged to remember things in an ego-centric manner.
