{"id":4819,"date":"2020-02-23T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2020-02-23T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T21:28:30","slug":"mindbugs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/23\/mindbugs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The article on mindbugs reminded me of some of the concepts that we talked about in leadership 102. It is clear that humans are basically incapable of seeing the full picture and that definitely worries me. I was thinking about how often members of my family and I remember the past differently. We are both positive that we are right, but tell different stories involving different people, places etc. It is clear here that we are filling in gaps in our memories, but doing it differently based on what is convenient for our brains. People always want to claim that they are in the right, but based on this reading it seems that both people might never be in the right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The implications of these mindbugs are scary. We are making decisions with faulty information most of the time. This affects how we make choices all the time, even if we do not realize it. To me, it is frustrating that we can know that we make decisions using faulty logic all the time, but not really know how to stop that. It reminded me of the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Predictably Irrational<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which talks about how we know that humans make completely irrational decisions, but are comfortable that way. Certain decisions might make sense in our heads, but are completely not grounded in reality. It&#8217;s frustrating that even though I am aware of mindbugging and some of its implications, it would still be hard, and probably impossible in some cases, to train myself to think differently.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article on mindbugs reminded me of some of the concepts that we talked about in leadership 102. It is clear that humans are basically incapable of seeing the full picture and that definitely worries me. I was thinking about how often members of my family and I remember the past differently. We are both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}