If something sounds certainly correct, check it up on Wikipedia anyway—it takes less than a minute. Likewise if it sounds almost certainly wrong.
If I don’t know why exactly someone went to his conclusion, do not assume he thinks it for the wrong reasons.
If I can predict I will be too busy to go to gym in the next few days, do a 5-minute (1-set) exercise—this is at least 50% of the efficiency of a normal exercise.
When I feel the drive to argue, do careful judgement on whether it’s efficient to do so.
Never blame people for their biases. If they don’t understand me, and even if they are trying not to understand me, blaming the people is meaningless. It is my fault that I could not predict them and was not persuasive. Furthermore, such people are usually kind and not even being unintentionally mean, no matter how bad are the results of their actions (this also applies to extreme cases of biasedness, such as outgroup thinking).
Don’t ignore the judgement of people that appear to be basing their opinion on anecdotal evidence and are easily biased. They may or may not have a good reason for thinking that. If I don’t know how did they reach the conclusion, no matter how absurd their arguments sound, they might be added after the bottom line was drawn, while the bottom line being based on reasonable evidence (this has happened at least once).
If something sounds certainly correct, check it up on Wikipedia anyway—it takes less than a minute. Likewise if it sounds almost certainly wrong.
If I don’t know why exactly someone went to his conclusion, do not assume he thinks it for the wrong reasons.
If I can predict I will be too busy to go to gym in the next few days, do a 5-minute (1-set) exercise—this is at least 50% of the efficiency of a normal exercise.
When I feel the drive to argue, do careful judgement on whether it’s efficient to do so.
Never blame people for their biases. If they don’t understand me, and even if they are trying not to understand me, blaming the people is meaningless. It is my fault that I could not predict them and was not persuasive. Furthermore, such people are usually kind and not even being unintentionally mean, no matter how bad are the results of their actions (this also applies to extreme cases of biasedness, such as outgroup thinking).
Don’t ignore the judgement of people that appear to be basing their opinion on anecdotal evidence and are easily biased. They may or may not have a good reason for thinking that. If I don’t know how did they reach the conclusion, no matter how absurd their arguments sound, they might be added after the bottom line was drawn, while the bottom line being based on reasonable evidence (this has happened at least once).