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Negative Liberty vs. Positive Liberty and the Road to Hell
All sides in our split society claim to want freedom, but how can that be? We must look at the difference between positive liberty and negative liberty.
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Scott

August 2021

Use Disconfirming Evidence to Make Your Decisions Suck Less
In this article, I explain disconfirming evidence., give a disconfirming evidence example, and discuss disconfirming evidence and the scientific method.
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Scott

July 2021

Confirmation Bias: Why your decisions suck and you fight with your friends
Confirmation bias causes intelligent people to make terrible decisions, leading to divisiveness and damaged relationships.
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Scott

June 2021

How False Patterns Cause You to Make Bad Decisions
Our ability to see connections between things is key to our understanding of the world. But, we can find false patterns that distort our view of the…
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Scott

July 2020

Want a better life? Remember this simple rule.
It seems to me that life is pretty simple.
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Scott

June 2020

How the Wright Brothers can make you a success
Because others have more or better opportunities doesn't mean you're without your own opportunities.
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Scott

May 2020

You Need to Know Life's Dirty Little Secret
Here’s a little secret.
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Scott
Do You Know Why Moral Decisions Aren't the Best?
Making decisions based on morals seems like the right thing to do.
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Scott
The goal of everything - and why you can’t change it
Humans want to impose their will on the world around them.
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Scott

April 2020

Survivorship Bias: Dropping Out of School Won't Make You a Billionaire. I Don't Care Who Did It.
We love stories of people who bucked conventional wisdom to achieve incredible success.
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Scott

March 2020

Logical Fallacy: Denying the Antecedent
We can look at life as a series of judgments and conclusions.
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Scott
The Secret to Better Decision Making
How many times have you made what seemed like a great decision only to later realize how wrong you were?
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Scott
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