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Something titled like “Lying to Ourselves”. You could spend half of your chapters on normal daily examples of how we really make decisions about dating, marriage, kids, since people love that, then you could build up to how this way of thinking affects how we think about and accept and change our systems of social control like governments.

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Brilliant post, reminded me of Keat's notion of negative capability - very few successful people stray outside their competence because they don't have that negative capability (except enough to get skilled at their core work) and are comfortable enough where they are, intellectual curiosity & high IQ are not necessarily concomitant traits.

"Muddle headedness is a condition precedent to independent thought."- Alfred North Whitehead

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