Arrogance is the most common mistake people make. Because they're ashamed of being wrong. Just don't be. Embrace that you're human and you're likely wrong about most of what you understand. Simply because you're human. If you notice, about 90% of all cognitive biases derive from arrogance.
After you understand how prone to cognitive bias human beings are. You should understand that the chance of you being wrong about something you're absolutely positive about. Is actually huge. You're wrong more often than not.
The practical advice to take from this is to simply be careful, be skeptic, doubt yourself. Just practice, stepping back for a second and assume that you might be wrong before jumping into conclusions. Doing that, you'll find that you were wrong much more often than you thought. And after you note that you're wrong, you can then improve your opinion.
Arrogance is the most common mistake people make. Because they're ashamed of being wrong. Just don't be. Embrace that you're human and you're likely wrong about most of what you understand. Simply because you're human. If you notice, about 90% of all cognitive biases derive from arrogance.
After you understand how prone to cognitive bias human beings are. You should understand that the chance of you being wrong about something you're absolutely positive about. Is actually huge. You're wrong more often than not.
The practical advice to take from this is to simply be careful, be skeptic, doubt yourself. Just practice, stepping back for a second and assume that you might be wrong before jumping into conclusions. Doing that, you'll find that you were wrong much more often than you thought. And after you note that you're wrong, you can then improve your opinion.
Unless I'm mistaken, of course :)