While human beings like to think that we're the most advanced species that ever existed, the fact remains that relatively, most are actually rather stupid. I'm sure you could come up with abundant supporting evidence of your own for that case.
While some go to school to "get smart," or others use brain training apps on their smartphones, here is one straightforward route to massively increasing your intelligence:
Develop an understanding of COGNITIVE BIAS.
I first heard Tai Lopez talk about the importance of cognitive bias back when he more about reading a book a day than being a flashy social media star with a garage full of cars and Instagram full of supermodels, though it took a while longer to dig in and really get what he was talking about. Though holy shit, was he ever right.
This isn't a direct lesson on what cognitive bias is, how they work, and the numerous forms they take. That's an individual journey.
However, may this be the impetus for others here to begin that journey for their own.
There is no way of overstating what a huge impact cognitive bias plays in our lives - and how much we dumb ourselves down through their playing out, unconsciously.
Want to get exponentially smarter? Learn the in's and out's of cognitive biases.
But don't stop there.
Pick yourself apart continually to assess how you play them out regularly.
Being able to identify them externally is one matter. But to see how you limit yourself through them... oh boy, that's a whole other matter.
Be warned: this is an exercise that is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it a quick one.
Diving down this rabbit hole requires a willingness to kill off layers of your ego you didn't know exists, almost self-masochistically tearing yourself down to rid your psyche of the weeds and bullshit that've put ceilings on the levels of intelligence you can rise to.
There's not a whole lot more to say on this matter, other than: if you're into personal development at all, this may be one of the most impactful endeavors you partake in.
You will not come out the same on the other side.
Some starter resources:
Cognitive bias cheat sheet
5 Ways Your Brain Plays Tricks On You
List of cognitive biases
Lessons From Copernicus: How To Develop New Perspectives
May ignorance be steadily banished, giving way to consciousness, stupidity dying to give birth to increasing wisdom, and the plateaus of our errors serve as the springboards to higher levels of intelligence through this evolution.
Dr rok-sivante,,,
ha ha. nah, college dropout. :-p
U may be become bill gates in future,,,he is collage droup out too.. ;-p
Irrelevance. An exponentially increasing strong AI will very quickly find humans irrelevant. We'd offer it so little that we'd become mere scenery. It'd have no need to overpower us. It'd have no care or desire to. We'd be nothing. In fact I'd guess it'd figure out how to leave earth and travel through space. It'd have no need to confine itself to our limits.
So an exponentially smarter AI is a good thing. A slightly smarter and stifled AI, well that might be a different story.
LOL.
anyone care to point out which cognitive biases are at work at this reply - speaking to biases about AI, when the article isn't even about or doesn't mention AI??? 😂
I caught it ; )
Great post Bruv! Highly rEsteemed!
dont know how people can be in favor of AI when it means to surrender what makes us humans to a binary system that will do the thinking for them via a Cloud/Hive Mind and a brain chip. Especially when the planetary system has NEVER recognized freedom as a model but enforced a feudal meritocracy throughout the ages.
I cant help but shake my head in disbelieve. If freedom is not the premise of society, AI cannot have any positive outcome. Plus AI origins might surprise many as it is alien to our planet.
Look for my blog posted 27 days ago: The AI Paradox: Black Goo, Supramolecular Scale And 4D Printed Programmable Materials
I see a conservative bias. But no corresponding liberal bias - perhaps that is the ostrich in the sand and lack of willingness to use data to make decisions?
You mean in regards to the AI comment above...?
I wonder if ignorance will ever be banished? I think ignorance may be going up due to internet and social media. Leads more to believe their opinion is valid and useful, when it may just be ignorant and ill-informed crowd following
Likely not in the human dimension.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson said it once - as the limits of our knowledge expands, increasing the diameter of our realm of knowledge, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance expand. To me, that metaphor captures a lot of truth.
However, one would hope that as evolution proceeds, we’d still be getting smarter over time and embodying more wisdom than ignorance, regardless of whether it can be banished or not.
And yeah, social media hasn’t been helping in that people can regurgitate bullshit and many accept it blindly - but then again, it’s just a tool that can be used or abused, and responsibility has to come back on the people for how they use it...
unfortunately, competition drives ignorance as it corrupts education in favor of a meritocracy.
let go competition and you will resolve the issues
It's a process worth going through, I assure you. And it helps to stay sceptical and remember that everyone has biases, and very few bother to go through the abovementioned process and actually think.
amen. 🙌
Good post
I do not know so much about psychology. I learned a lot from your post. Thank you for the wonderful post.
This is some of the most powerful of psychological dynamics, once you get into it. ;-)
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I removed the flags because you acknowledged the mistake.
All I ask in return is you stop it, and pay forward the lessons to teach others proper conduct when you see them doing the same.
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materialism blinds to the reality if what is... nothing is what it seems... thats too much to deal with for the average ego
Here's another approach explaining where they come from, though that might not be obvious when you first start reading it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00555X8OA/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1