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Choose Your Beliefs
Nobel Prize winner DanielKahneman was a behavioral economist - he studied the difference between what economists expected people to do and what they actually did. I heard an interview he gave where he described the difference between facts and beliefs. He said our beliefs were like a tabletop, and we used facts like legs under the tabletop to support our beliefs. He said our beliefs were surprisingly durable; if someone came along and proved the facts we used to support our belief wrong, we rarely changed our belief. We find new facts to support our belief. I have found this to be true in my own life. What I have also found to be true is that our beliefs are changeable, but only when ....
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