The non-bias fallacy

Everyone is biased, except me! Cognitive biases do save your brain time and energy through mental shortcuts. But they are just tools: useful in the right contexts, but harmful in others.

Karl Popper, eminent philosopher of science and author of the 1999 book All Life Is Solving Problems, said, ‘If we’re uncritical, we shall always find what we want. We shall look for and find confirmations and we’ll look away from and not see whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.’ In other words, you tend to find what you’re looking for.

Next time you think you're right, try asking the counter-intuitive question, 'in what ways could my opinion be wrong?'