This shouldn’t be down-voted if for no other reason then it shows that a regular contributor to LW got an article in a major paper that contains the following paragraph:
“Recent research shows that after any emotionally powerful event, our brains tend to assign too much weight to that event compared with what is really important to us, a thinking error called attentional bias. To fight this thinking error, we should consider what are our actual goals and how best to reach them.”
This shouldn’t be down-voted if for no other reason then it shows that a regular contributor to LW got an article in a major paper that contains the following paragraph:
“Recent research shows that after any emotionally powerful event, our brains tend to assign too much weight to that event compared with what is really important to us, a thinking error called attentional bias. To fight this thinking error, we should consider what are our actual goals and how best to reach them.”
Isn’t that the point of the Monthly Bragging Thread? Why do you consider the article to be valuable to be in discussion?
Agreed—the article is remarkably rational for a mainstream media op-ed.