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“Humans do not have enough mental capacity to do all the things that we think we can do. As attentional load increases, attentional capacity gradually diminishes.”
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
“We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.”
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“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”
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
“We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.”
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
― Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
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