Biases are very hard to compensate against. Even when it’s obvious from experience that your past decisions/beliefs were consistently very biased in one direction, it’s still hard to compensate against the bias.
This compensation against your bias feels so incredibly abstract. So incredibly theoretical. Whereas the biased version of reality which the bias wants you to believe. Feels so tangible. Real. Detailed. Lucid. Flawless. You cannot begin to imagine how it could be wrong by very much. It is like the ground beneath your feet.[1]
E.g. in my case, the bias is that “I’m about to get self control very soon (thanks to a new good idea which I swear is different than every previous failed idea)! Therefore, I don’t have change plans (to something which doesn’t require much self control).”
Biases are very hard to compensate against. Even when it’s obvious from experience that your past decisions/beliefs were consistently very biased in one direction, it’s still hard to compensate against the bias.
This compensation against your bias feels so incredibly abstract. So incredibly theoretical. Whereas the biased version of reality which the bias wants you to believe. Feels so tangible. Real. Detailed. Lucid. Flawless. You cannot begin to imagine how it could be wrong by very much. It is like the ground beneath your feet.[1]
E.g. in my case, the bias is that “I’m about to get self control very soon (thanks to a new good idea which I swear is different than every previous failed idea)! Therefore, I don’t have change plans (to something which doesn’t require much self control).”