Its hard to imagine how big is the universe since everything that has ever happened to
us, has happened here on earth, everything that we have ever known in the entire our
history happened right here!
But earth in comparison to the universe is smaller than a grand of sand compare to the
desert.
In fact, 109 earths would fit inside the sun which is considered one of the tinies stars
out there.
And guess what, our entire solar system is absolutely nothing in comparison to our galaxy
because there are over 100 billion stars out there that are way bigger than our sun!
And whats even mind-blowing than all of this is that, there are around 2 trillion galaxies
out there in the entire universe.
Its even difficult to comprehend all of this, And yet the most complicated object in the
entire this universe (as far as we know) is located right here on earth, specifically
right inside your head.
Yes, thats your brain.
And guess what, your brain on whom you rely for almost everything, has been cheating you
for a while already, and you probably have not realize that!
How?
thats exactly what we will find out now!
Unlike other parts of your body, Your brain is in charge of everything that you do.
Every action that you take has to go through your brain first.
You might do many things at the same time, like walking, speaking, moving your hands,
looking around, digest information, and like other parts of your body, your brain gets
tired and it starts looking for some shortcuts to make this process easier, because it wants
to save energy, so it creates algorithm to make most of its activities automatic.
You see a nice dude in a suit, you automatically assume he is a good smart person, although
that he might be the complete opposite.
And vice versa of course.
And thats known as confirmation bias, your brain is tend to believe in what you already
know just to confirm it.
Thats why its really difficult to win an argument because we naturally look for evidence just
to confirm what we already know and not necessarily the truth
Although that we have tons of evidence that smoking is harmful, you will find smokers
defending that its not that bad, look there is a guy in some corner of the world who is
over a hundred years old and he smokes, why is he in a perfect health.
He will ignore every other piece of evidence and solely focus on that one case just to
confirm what he already believes.
And that happens to all of us!
In fact, people naturally defend themselves because it was their choice and thats known
as choice supportive bias.
If you are a mac user for instance, you naturally ignore all the downsides of using a MacBook
and solely focus on its advantages and vice versa of course.
Because your brain wants you to feel good about your decisions.
Have you ever heard people saying when they do something wrong - at least I didnt do that!
although what they did was wrong.
Or when your favourite politician candidate does something wrong, you defend him because
you voted for him!
Then there is Bandwagon Bias People have the tendency to believe in whatever
the rest of the people believe in.
A lot of people in United States for example believe that Terrorism is their biggest threat
because thats what everyone says in the tv, thats what your family and friends believe,
but if you look at facts, you are more likely to be killed by a policeman than by a terrorist
even though the police is hired to protect you!
Your brain automatically assumes than if everyone believe in something, then it must be right
because your brain is looking for shortcuts because it doesn’t want to be involved again
in some deep thinking since that takes a lot of energy.
Thats why we are all bias in one way or another because thats how our brains are designed
to work.
Thats why you should always be open to other peoples ideas because you might be wrong without
knowing that…
if thats true, if we are all bias, then what makes this video unbiased?
this entire video could be totally bias which makes it false, and you simply waisted time
watching it Or it could be right, and you can let me know by clicking on that like button!
But if you like this video, you could also be bias like me…
anyways, lets end the video before it gets more confusing…
and now its your turn, what do you think?
Should we try to be completely unbiased ? let me know in the comments below.
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