That if you try your hardest, things will somehow work out.

Sometimes, shit just happens

The most dangerous cognitive trap is the oversimplification of our fellow human beings. Let’s call it NPCification.

The human mind can only contain one full human mind at a time. In order for us to model each other, we do a quick mental diff as in “that person is like me except in x, y, or z way”. Only problem is that is a reductive model. You are shaving off so much intricacy in the name of saving a few precious joules of mental energy (but the brain is lazy and likes finding shortcuts), so we end up reducing each other to being less complex than ourselves.

In war. In sport. In romance. In business. In friendship. It’s a mistake to simplify others. You can’t help but do it, but you can be aware of the tendency so that it doesn’t cause you to miscalculate your whole life.

Probably confirmation bias

There's some recent evidence that confirmation bias actually gets worse in people who understand confirmation bias: i.e. people succumb to confirmation bias more, when they are trying not to.

Blending my life and my job.

I worked so much into making my environment better just to understand that all I did was actually for someone else, someone that was making profit out of it, my precious personal time was basically like some weird kind of unpaid work.

Having an healthy and friendly environment at work is fine, just keep you personal growth "personal", you're more important than a job you can change or lose.

"Everyone is a little ADHD, you just have to find purpose, motivation and try to focus harder"

Great, I just need a new brain 👍

No management

Well, this is going to turn out badly…. so I guess disaster prediction.

We end up worrying about the worst that MAY happen. There is a difference between forewarned of a potential outcome and paralysis in the face of it.

Thinking that because you were/are right about something, it automatically makes it more likely that you're right about something else you often know very little about. There's plenty of people who have been successful in one field and then start throwing out opinions about other fields as if their initial success confirmed that they're in some way better at finding the truth of things in general.

Buying and holding shitcoins because of their "utiliity". If they are actually utility tokens (instead of degen gambling collectibles) then they should have no monetary premium.

Pessimism

The saying goes: Pessimists sound smart, optimists get rich. But it's the same thing in politics and culture war stuff: be wary of people that sound smart because they are pessimistic. They might be right - they might be low iq populists

Conformity and authority. Asch and Milgram.

That jews are beyond condemnation.