Very true. A typical reaction when reading advice or something about the typical flaws of people (biases, planning), is “Yeah but that doesn’t apply to me”. It often takes a deliberate effort to override the inside view and stop finding excuses.
Note that in both cases the mistake makes us look better:
“I know how others work from the experience of my own mind” sounds better than “I don’t understand other people”
“I don’t make that common mistake because I’m different from others” sounds better than “whoops I’m also likely to make that mistake”
Very true. A typical reaction when reading advice or something about the typical flaws of people (biases, planning), is “Yeah but that doesn’t apply to me”. It often takes a deliberate effort to override the inside view and stop finding excuses.
Note that in both cases the mistake makes us look better:
“I know how others work from the experience of my own mind” sounds better than “I don’t understand other people”
“I don’t make that common mistake because I’m different from others” sounds better than “whoops I’m also likely to make that mistake”