Our experiences trump everything else, but mostly, those experiences are incredibly skewed: they teach us, but they don’t teach us well. It’s why disentangling chance from skill is so difficult in everyday decisions: it’s a statistical undertaking, and one we are not normally equipped to deal with.
Author: Maria Konnikova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
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