May 26 • 🎙️Podcast & Content Talk
DAY 139 b: THE GOLDEN FALLACIES
Folders; *Problem Solving/Critical Thinking/ Social Intelligence/Business Strategy*
Today we are going to touch on two fallacies of thinking that have been widely explored.
But.... _drumroll_ we still think along those lines.
The first is; *Correlation is not Causation*
Picture this; You always get tired after walking doesn't mean walking makes you tired.
Always get tired after walking - walking correlating with tiredness
You get tired because of walking - walking caused.your tiredness
Huge difference
Maybe you are just low on glucose, energy and not necessarily walking that makes you tired.
But why do we get caught up in this thinking?
Because naturally we want to find a causation for almost everything right to us finding the causation for why the world was created.
So when we find correlation. _Hallelujah_ We immediately tag it as causation because guess they really look life. In fact they look like twins.
But the top 1 percenters know that correlation is *not* Causation.
They always remind themselves this;
Another fallacy is logic proving truth.
Logic is not the proof of truth. The fact that something is logically coherent doesn't mean it's true.
Obvious? But about 90% of us mistake logic for truth. Once somebody tells us something which logically makes sense(forcefully or inherently) we take it as truth.
With no intention to punch holes, to critique, to bend it over.
The more interesting part? This fallacy of substituting logic for truth makes us make a lot of assumptions.
And to add icing to the cake, we make decisions based on assumptions that were made based on a fallacy of accepting logic as truth.
I know its a lot to take in but let's take it slow 🦥.
First, daily remind yourself
1) Correlation is not Causation
2) Logic is not the proof of truth
At least write it down everyday.
NB; Clear Thinking is a rare advantage now.
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DAY 139 b: THE GOLDEN FALLACIES
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