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First. Under recognition of the power of what psychologists call reinforcement and economists call incentives.

My second factor is simple psychological denial

Third. Incentive-cause bias, both in ones own mind and that of ones trusted advisor, where it creates what economists call agency costs.

Fourth, and this is a superpower in error-causing psychological tendency, bias from consistency and commitment tendency, including the tendency to avoid or promptly resolve cognitive dissonance

The human mind has a big tendency of the same sort

When one sperm gets in, it shuts down so the next one can’t get in. The human mind has a big tendency of the same sort

Many of these students that are screaming at us, you know, they aren’t convincing us, but they’re forming mental change for themselves, because what they’re shouting out they’re pounding in

It’s very important to not put your brain in chains too young by what you shout out

And all these things like painful qualifying and initiation rituals, all those things, pound in your commitments and your ideas

Sixth. Bias from Pavlovian association