We are a highly-intelligent species and yet we are often not able to resolve or often even recognize the stuff going on in our own heads. Why is that?
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ELI5: Take your favourite book, put your nose on the page and try to read. All the words are still there, but you’re too close to make sense of them.
Not-so-ELI5: As a highly intelligent species, we’re also very good at lying, especially to ourselves. And our biases can and will get in the way of our self evaluation. You might train yourself to overcome them, but a guide still makes it infinitely easier to figure it out.
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