The Most Common Cognitive Bias
The Black Swan x Fooled by Randomness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4w2O61Xo
If it was all a matter of following your bliss and doing what made you happy, then everyone in the world would be a paragon of wisdom, but it’s not that at all. It’s a matter of facing the thing you least want to face. The gateway to wisdom and to the development of personality is precisely through the portal that you do not want to climb through.
There’s a bunch of things about you that are underdeveloped because they’re thing you’ve avoided looking at because you don’t want to look at them, and there’s parts of you you’ve avoided developing because it’s hard for you to develop those parts. It’s by virtual necessity that what you need is exactly where you don’t want to look.
The plot of your life is the overcoming of those limitations. If there were no limitations, then there would be no plot, and maybe there would be no life. You have to accept the fact that you’re flawed and insufficient and live with it and consider it a precondition for being.
Science seeks to disconfirm, Pseudoscience seeks to confirm
If you’re a scientist, you’re gonna have to let your beliefs go, accept the evidence, and move on.
The Beginning of Infinity & The Fabric of Reality
The “no” is much more informational to you than the “yes”. Seek rejections. If you think something is true, try as hard as you can to disprove it. Don't fool yourself.
Probability, Statistics, Data Science