Marching Bands & Silent Ninjas

Marching Bands & Silent Ninjas

In politics:

Our personal and political biases make us vulnerable to the misinformation / disinformation / propaganda / ideas / beliefs that fit into our world view. It slips in unnoticed and unchallenged. This impacts our political decision-making, even when the information, ideas, beliefs are bad*. 

We are predisposed to dismiss and reject information of all kinds, ideas, and beliefs from an alternative perspective, even if they are good ideas.

In fact, you may be predisposed to accept or reject the ideas I am presenting here without much consideration.

At work: 

The same thing happens.  

We are predisposed to easily accept - without question - ideas and information that are congruent with our professional perspectives, even when they are bad. And, we are predisposed to reject ideas that conflict with our perspective, even when they are good. 

This is why it is important to override our natural predispositions, inclinations, tendencies, beliefs with evidence-based reasoning.  Our decision-making will improve.

* We tend to believe that only the other perspectives have misinformation / disinformation / propaganda / bad beliefs and ideas because we notice them so much more easily. They are like little marching bands making noise and waving red flags. Our own side also has all of the above, but we tend to not notice them. They slip in like silent ninjas unobserved. In fact, we believe they are factually true.

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