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Analects
Here you'll find all the btrmt. content from across the projects.
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This might be the most comprehensive example of the neuroscience confidence
game I’ve ever written about. That and a heavy dose of self-indulgence.
Neuroscientific self-help, not so much.
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Chamine’s ‘Positivity Quotient’ is based on nothing beyond ‘being happier is
better than being sad’, and unless they appeal to you, there’s no reason to
pick his ‘ten saboteurs’ over any of the other inner-critics out there.
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It says it’s based on the latest research, but actually it’s based on a 40
year old version of the concept of an ‘inner critic’, and a pack of very well
worded porky-pies.
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Our brains track two kinds of uncertainty. Expected uncertainty makes us
trust our model of the world more and exploit familiar patterns (be biased).
Unexpected uncertainty makes us explore and update our model
(prefer noise). Correctly diagnosing the uncertainty is the key.
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Cogntive dissonance often describes a bias towards seeing ourselves as
coherent. Sure, it’s sneaky and prevalent, but entirely necessary. And, other
times we tolerate how noisy we are, keeping us open to new insights and
better equipped for a complex world.