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“I think you could use a cup of coffee.”
Not something you want to hear from the VP of your business unit, especially not as a Mormon who believes that coffee is a devil's drink.
That was 10 years ago, luckily, since then, I’ve gotten much more practiced at recognizing and rejecting ridiculous ideas. Which has allowed me to fall in love with coffee. If you look closely, you’ll see a coffee plant in the background, captured on a trip to a coffee farm in Indonesia.
Identifying and filtering out bullshit is a mental muscle. Anyone can do it, but you gotta want to.
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🎨 Printed on archival matte paper
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“I think you could use a cup of coffee.”
Not something you want to hear from the VP of your business unit, especially not as a Mormon who believes that coffee is a devil's drink.
That was 10 years ago, luckily, since then, I’ve gotten much more practiced at recognizing and rejecting ridiculous ideas. Which has allowed me to fall in love with coffee. If you look closely, you’ll see a coffee plant in the background, captured on a trip to a coffee farm in Indonesia.
Identifying and filtering out bullshit is a mental muscle. Anyone can do it, but you gotta want to.

You Gotta Want To - The Essay

“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!”

-Mark Twain

Have you ever wondered why so many people are prone to believe in bullshit?

I think about it a lot because I used to be one of them. For years, I accepted what I was told based on my belief system and lacked the critical thinking skills to evaluate my beliefs.

For example, I was convinced that drinking coffee was a sin and would leave me vulnerable to the influence of Satan and his evil power.

Believing misinformation can feel oh-so-right despite its danger. It’s like jumping into a picturesque river on a summer day, without noticing a perilous undercurrent. It turns out there are good reasons we pick up restrictive beliefs. I can’t cover them all here. However, three factors, backed by research, resonate with my experience. They are predisposition, cognitive bias, and social influence.

Understanding how beliefs become ingrained in us is critical for learning to filter out the bad ones.

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