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Margaret Heffernan
“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.”
Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Margaret Heffernan
“Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who have it, think differently.”
Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Margaret Heffernan
“Silence is the language of inertia.”
Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Margaret Heffernan
“according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.”
Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

Margaret Heffernan
“When we are tired or preoccupied - what psychologists call 'resource-depleted' - we start to economise, to conserve those resources. Higher-order thinking is more expensive. So too is doubt, scepticism, arugment. 'Resource depletion specifically disables cognitive elaboration,' wrote Harvard psychologist Daniel Gillbert...Because it takes less brain power to believe than to doublt, we are, when tired or distracted, gullible. Because we are all biased, and biases are quick and effortless, exhaustion tends to make us prefer the information we know and are comfortable with. We are too tired to do the heavier lifting of examining new or contradictory information, so we fall back on our biases the opinions and the people we already trust”
Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

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