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CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE:

This is a powerful cognitive bias, and the one that's probably most responsible for you staying stuck in your dead-end way of doing things instead of breaking out.



What is it?

The mind's inability to remember what it was like to not know something. CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE:This is a powerful cognitive bias, and the one that's probably most responsible for you staying stuck in your dead-end way of doing things instead of breaking out.What is it?The mind's inability to remember what it was like to not know something.

At first glance you may think this is a relatively unimportant thing. Completely harmless.



But it's robbing you of your freedom. Here's how.



To understand, we're going to use an example from my life: Magic Tricks.



I'm a professional mentalist; I've performed in Vegas.

I know how the mind works, and I understand why the simple methods of magic are so powerful; they leverage exactly these kinds of mental hiccups. So, here's the example.



I do a trick, and you want to know how it works. You'll do ANYTHING. Pay me $100, even. Great! Pay up!