How to Identify Blind Spots in Your Thinking
We all have a set of standard worldviews as well as a set of hopes and beliefs with which we filter our current experiences.
By regularly asking ourselves a simple question, we can determine where we can prevent ourselves from fully understanding what is in front of us. Our blind spots.
As James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, recently tweeted :
Ask yourself, “What do I want to be true?” forces you to explore your assumptions about both the current situation and how you think it will be resolved. You may find, for example, that you want this slightly ambiguous text message from a new romantic interest to mean more than it really is – and let’s be honest, this is something you probably already knew, but were not ready to admit .
After all, this is exactly what we are talking about. Revealing what you are hiding from yourself or what you do not take into account. If you want the get-rich-quick scheme to be right, you will rationalize yourself for every reason why this is actually a multi-tiered marketing scheme (or why you will be the one who actually makes money from one of these things. ). If you instead ask yourself what you want to be true, and then ask yourself what happens if what you want turns out to be a lie, you can make better decisions.
So there are really two questions: “What do I want to be true?” and “What happens if it turns out to be false?” – and they may not always be simple.
They are still worth asking about.