Making progress building a self-fulfilling life requires individuals to move from naive preconceptions, prejudice, and acculturation to a more factual knowledge base. This invokes the required System II brain logic functions of Dr. Daniel Kahneman’s behavioral psychology. In this discussion we will explore moving our knowledge from subjective and unreliable information to objective and reliable facts based on Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, by Dr. Henry H. Bauer, 1992, herein quotes and summaries are referenced.
All of us have gut feelings, intuition, and System I brain functions working for us from birth. Though they, and the acculturation we receive, serve our childhoods and adolescence, these are too untested, subjective, and unreliable to be used in adulthood. Over time, with education, mentors, and experience, we begin to replace them with fact based reasoning that delivers better insight and outcomes.
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