Avoiding common cognitive bias. Know thyself!

“You are a creature impelled to hope. As you attempt to make sense of the world, you focus on what falls into place and neglect that which doesn’t fit, and there is so much in life that does not fit.”

“You see what you want to see and ignore the rest. When what you want to see is something meaningful, you ignore all the things in the story of your life that are meaningless. You see what you want to see and ignore the rest.”

“For any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who doesn’t give a shit if he or she gets fired or exiled or excommunicated. 
For a group to make good decisions, they must allow dissent and convince everyone they are free to speak their mind without risk of punishment.“

Be that asshole.

Feel free to dissent!

References:

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney

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