“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice that failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
It could be of course that you are limited by other features of your psychology, and fail to notice because noticing such things doesn’t lead to useful or sexy behavior. Such discriminating failure to notice things can’t be mere random stupidity.
Actually by Daniel Goleman. It comes from Goleman’s book, Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception, which looks relevant to the mission of Less Wrong.
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice that failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”
-- R.D. Laing, Knots
It could be of course that you are limited by other features of your psychology, and fail to notice because noticing such things doesn’t lead to useful or sexy behavior. Such discriminating failure to notice things can’t be mere random stupidity.
Actually by Daniel Goleman. It comes from Goleman’s book, Vital Lies, Simple Truths: The Psychology of Self-Deception, which looks relevant to the mission of Less Wrong.