No matter how thoughtful, intelligent, well-informed, or open-minded you think you are, you’re wrong.
Even if you are humble enough to admit what you don’t know, odds are you are still falling victim to a major cognitive fallacy that keeps you from having an accurate impression of reality.
Cognitive fallacies are so common, they are almost synonymous with thinking, and like a chicken-and-egg puzzle, they make it exhausting to try to think your way out of them. So whether you want to shatter the illusion of your false humility, or can’t wait to leave a comment at the bottom of this article explaining how you actually are never wrong about anything, this list should give you plenty to think about… in your own fundamentally flawed and biased way.