Pic Source: https://thejobsauce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Storytelling-Blog-Image.jpg As a being driven by emotions, we are inclined to do things that are meaningful to us. Despite the role mathematics and statistics have played in expanding our reach as a species far beyond the horizon, we never learned to think in numbers or equations. Contrary to the general notion, progress never was driven by numbers. Rather it was stories that each civilization chose to believe in and narrate that drove progress. The majority of us like to identify ourselves as rational decision-makers. For some reason, we feel it is a loss of face to admit that our decisions are the echoes of doctrines instilled in us as a child. Consequently, we overlook the fact that we use our rationality merely to rationalize our decisions, so that guilt of succumbing to our biases doesn't haunt us. And like an illusionist, our biases trick our mind's eye and make the irrational look rational. For instance,...
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