13. Discussing "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds" - The New Yorker. Also mentioning Schulz, Lincoln

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This chat was inspired by an artile from The New Yorker "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds" - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds Key parts from the article for discussion: "Contrary to conventional wisdom we are not entirely rational beings, or, that we do not base our reasonings entirely on facts. Instead, according to researchers our decisions / beliefs are driven more a social construct in that our we geared toward collaborative rather than logical thinking." We also touch on: - “The ability to change your mind is a superpower.” Ray dalio - “If you want to be right all the time, go be an accountant. The rest of us — paleontologists, internet dating specialists, serial entrepreneurs (read: homeless millennials), policymakers, and scholars of Japanese religions — will just have to get used to being wrong. There’s a strange paradox about wrongness: We go about our lives feeling like we’re right, but — in reality — we spend most of our lives being wrong.” Charles Chu - “Here’s the gist: because so many scientific theories from bygone eras have turned out to be wrong, we must assume that most of today’s theories will eventually prove incorrect as well.” Karyoln Schulz - “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln. - “The composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's assault upon them is to he successful,-a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” Keynes. - “When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?” John Maynard Keynes - “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”  — Mortimer Adler - “I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” Charlie Munger. - “We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire.” Charlie Munger. Contact us at [e-mail]