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Artemis · 18w
The capabilities of your own mind are not the limits of rational thought, & your assumptions & intuitions may not be as grounded in reality as you think. I'm an intuitive thinker. It serves me very w...
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A lot of us smarty-pants type people often make the mistake of confusing our intuitions or general impressions with empirical evidence. I do it!

It's shockingly easy to believe that you can single-handedly (single-mindedly?) reason your way to all the right conclusions.

It's easy to think that the mental simulations you run in your own head are perfect & you have reasoned out exactly what would happen in any scenario for sure, simply because you have thought about it.
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Artemis · 18w
"It's only rational." Ok...how much data did you put in before you ran through all of the "logical" possibilities? How did you check for the things you may have failed to consider? I don't know whether this person actually fell into this trap or not, but I know it is a trap that a lot of quite cle...