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I present to you the Wikipedia List of Cognitive Biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Egocentric_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
by roenxi 2y ago
I present to you the Wikipedia List of Cognitive Biases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Egocentric_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Egoce... . There is a lot of overlap on a topic like this, but probably something like the "Illusion of validity".
That being said, listening to your own body is not a bad strategy. The nervous system evolved in tandem with this particular extremely complex system and is arguably purpose-built to keep it in good working order.
- marliechiller 2y ago| listening to your own body is not a bad strategy. Is it this strictly true? Are people that are overweight not just "listening to their body" when they overeat? I feel its not as simple as that. If we always listened to our bodies we would never exercise beyond the first instance of becoming tired for example.
- salawat 2y agoThe existence of things like psychiatric meds imply that the answer to "listen to your own body" is not universally yes.