It’s almost certainly true, but an accessible and rational strategy to combat that is to critically consider why you think anything that you do if you haven’t y

It’s almost certainly true, but an accessible and rational strategy to combat that is to critically consider why you think anything that you do if you haven’t yet. Maybe that seems obvious written out, but it wasn’t to me at first. I felt a deep sense of being a product of my environment in a negative sense. I think what happened was that I began to see holes in my knowledge or understanding of things I thought I knew and it was a little unsettling. These days I just try to stop myself and ask: why do I think that? How far down the chain do I need to go in order to find concrete information? To some people this is probably very intuitive. And it is for most of us when it comes to matters of science. But what about your opinion of companies, products, or even people? I think we all get into habits of being influenced here - it’s literally in our genes and can be very covert. I guess in a sense this is like personal epistemology. It’s important to study on a macro scale, but also on a micro scale in individual day to day operations.