It’s a beautiful sunny day. You’re driving effortlessly along an empty highway. Twenty minutes go by and you hardly remember looking at the road! An hour later some menacing clouds roll in.Rush-hour traffic is picking up. A storm hits. You pass an accident on the side of the road. Your concentration is being pushed to […]
Self-awareness – knowing what you believe and why
In my self-awareness posts I write about our brains as seen through the lenses of evolutionary and social psychology, neuroscience, and beyond. Only by understanding ourselves can we improve ourselves. Worldviews are a useful tool here for mapping out our beliefs, and then critiquing them and improving them.
Some specific topics covered are: evolutionary & social psychology, neuroscience, biases, heuristics, clarity, values, history, culture, worldviews, beliefs