4 bad mental habits that prevent people from thinking clearly—and how to overcome them
People tend to overestimate their own knowledge.The human brain is endlessly inventive and the source of countless marvels.However intelligent or well-informed we are, we are susceptible to the most common bad mental habits.
That’s why teachers are so important, beginning in grade school. But learning does not just transmit from old to young. If you have children or grandchildren, I suspect they are also good teachers, pointing out your mistakes in their squeaky voices, or driving you crazy by their bad examples of bad logic.
We can be better thinkers if we catch ourselves making the most common mistakes at least some of the time. Here, according to psychologists, are a few to watch for:Newspaper feature stories often start with an anecdote because it makes the statistics and other abstract information in the following paragraphs more believable.
When we’re hard-headed, we know an anecdote is just one example, and should be less persuasive than solid statistics reflecting many examples.. Ask any creative writing teacher. Details stick in our minds. Then we draw ridiculous conclusions from them. We think, “That brown-haired check-out lady at the supermarket, the one who got into a conversation and took twice as long as the blonde on the other side. She made me late for my Zoom meeting.
Try to laugh at yourself when you do this. You will do this over and over and, if you are patient and savvy, catch yourself more often.Your husband, John, is missing—no one can find him. You weep easily; it comes over you while you’re in public, while you’re driving. John loved Roy Orbison, the early rock singer. You put on a classic rock station in the car and you begin weeping.
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