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#4
Task VS Relationship Conflicts

Be a Disagreeable Giver.
Frame a dispute as debate, "Can we debate?"

Have a good fight on How, not Why.

Help them see the limits of their understanding by asking them to unpack the mechanisms -> Ask basic, fundamental questions.

#3-2
Best forecasters in tournaments were those who update their views frequently.
How much rethinking is necessary? Just a few more, but it's unusual.

Few evidences are enough for conclusions but not for revising them.

Change opinions, when facts change. Odds are based on facts.

To be right in a long run, you have to be wrong A LOT in short runs.

When forming an opinion, look for conditions to prove it false.

#3-1
Being wrong is the only way to know we’ve learned something

Detach
1. Your present from your past
2. Your opinions from your identity
= your present and opinions shouldn't be tied to anything

Even positive changes causes negative emotions; derailed / disconnected

the world changes. knowledge evolves. rethink.

define yourself by values , not opinions
-> flexibility to update the best ways to advance them

#2
metacognitive = think about our thinking
-> recognize cognitive blind spots in knowledges & opinions
-> fill or correct them

Confident humility (sweet spot of confidence)
= confident in your ability to achieve a goal in the future while maintaining the humility to question whether you have the right tools in the present

benefit of the doubt = a cue to improve the tools
-> work harder, smarter, better learner

Scientist mode: search for the truth (why we're wrong, not why I'm right). Experiment (test the alternative hypotheses).

Smarter -> easier to recognize patterns -> easier for confirmation & desirability bias

Learning for belief evolution

We cling to our exiting tools (assumption, instinct, habit).
Rethink "Without my tools, who am I?" And Unlearn.