Quotes About Understanding

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You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than is available in everyday language.

Capacidade para surpresa é um aspecto essencial de nossa vida mental, e a própria surpresa é o indicativo mais sensível de como compreendemos nosso mundo e o que esperamos dele.

Most of us, most of the time, live with the unquestioned belief that the world looks as it does because that's the way it is.

Surprise then activates and orients your attention: you will stare, and you will search your memory for a story that makes sense of the surprising event.

every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell. One

more intelligent individuals are more likely than others to have rich representations of most things.

We can live comfortably with colleagues without ever noticing that they actually do not see the world as we do.

The core of the illusion is that we believe we understand the past, which implies that the future also should be knowable, but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do. Know is not the only word that fosters this illusion. In common usage, the words intuition and premonition also are reserved for past thoughts that turned out to be true.

The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.

System 2 is activated when an event is detected that violates the model of the world that System 1 maintains.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.

In everyday speech, we call people reasonable if it is possible to reason with them, if their beliefs are generally in tune with reality, and if their preferences are in line with their interests and their values. The

Subjects' unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.

Moses illusion.

you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. WYSIATI facilitates the achievement of coherence and of the cognitive ease that causes us to accept a statement as true.

She has a coherent story that explains all she knows, and the coherence makes her feel good.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence

The sense-making machinery of System 1 makes us see the world as more tidy, simple, predictable, and coherent than it really is. The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future.

understanding a statement must begin with an attempt to believe it: you must first know what the idea would mean if it were true.

WYSIATI—what you see is all there is.

Psychology has come a long way.