SYSK Choice: How to Boost Your Self Confidence & Avoiding Misapplied Intelligence
Something You Should Know
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Are You Using Your Intelligence Correctly?
People who are very intelligent, if they don't have the kind of checks and balances to ensure their applying ther intelligence correctly, can acturally be even more wrong than people who are less intelligent. There's this phenomenon known as motivated reasoning. And that's why you have a very strong emotional connection to your belief tat might be a political ideology, or it could be a religious belief,. You're so convinced by that, and its so imporsant your identity, that you just apply your intelligence to rationalize those beliefs, even if it's wrong.
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