Quotes About Inside view

That's why we naturally end up in echo chambers. The inside view feels especially good when it's sold as the outside view, in the guise of someone supposedly offering an objective perspective that merely confirms what you believe. But that only serves to amplify the inside view, strengthening your view of the world because it feels certified by others.

When it comes to the bad stuff, the inside view tends to lead you to blame luck rather than your own decision-making. After all, luck is the easiest escape hatch for keeping your self-narrative intact. But identifying luck as the primary culprit for your situation won't help you much in addressing the situation.

The importance of the base rate was made famous by the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who coined the phrase "the outside view and the inside view." The inside view means looking at the specific case in front of you: this couple. The outside view requires you to look at a more general "comparison class" of cases—here, the comparison class is all married couples. (The outside view needn't be statistical, but it often will be.)