 What we're going to do today is we're going to start by having a discussion and what we're going to do is discuss the difference between two positions when thinking about this stuff. The first is Ignorance is bliss. So this is kind of thinking about it in terms of a System one approach. You can also think about it in terms of various heuristics and biases that people have. On the other hand, we have the opposite position the unexamined life is not worth living. So System two thinking, being critical, thinking carefully about things and we're going to want you to kind of examine both carefully and we'll talk about those in our small groups before we move on. If you are exposed to bad things in life or you you know you're examining different parts of life, not just your own sort of trivial little world. It makes good things that happen to you That brings us kind of like a shallow happiness, but if we overcome we'll do Something about it then it's better because it has more depth. I mean there are little things But we could be wrong about the choices that we make so it's like we could go through life fairly easily But we could make better decisions. I totally agree with Danny Kahneman in regards to Just picking a few things to be really quite good at. How many people believe that ignorance is bliss? Keep your hands up Um, we're going to ask you to move to this side of the room All right, the rest of the people go to this side of please Things exist, you know, there is evil in the world. There is uh, there is good in the world They exist whether we whether we like it or not How can you not want to know what is there and and and what can go wrong and what can't go wrong And what is possible and what is impossible Not knowing and being happy is better than knowing and not Knowing what we know about Representativeness and availability heuristics and all these other things in system one That's where racism and sexism and all of these other sort of stereotypes we um, we create are made like system two thinking seems to be the only thing That can challenge that where you can actually think about things on a deeper level and And effect change people I think we like to think that we're more analytical and and deeper than perhaps we are and If you know, you might really believe in something but what information are you relying on? So how do we know that the information that we're using is necessarily true or you know evidence of one side? All right guys Now what we're going to do is everyone on this side stand up everyone on that side stand up and swap places Are you happy knowing that someone can change the answer you're about to give by giving you a different anchor Acquiring of the knowledge would make me quite unhappy. So I'd be happier just not knowing That these anchors exist, you know, just being blissful and like I don't know that people are Manipulating me or I don't know that people are Trying to push me an x or y direction Like the video that we saw in episode four Daniel Kahneman even said that This course is going to do nothing for us Like I was quite satisfied with my life before knowing about the post If we only listen to system one we make wrong decisions We make quick decisions that aren't necessarily correct problem-solving decisions Danny Kahneman's like one of the biggest victims for system one because his thinking of this course can't improve your thinking He might be totally missing out on improving his thinking and that entire school of thought Just because he's choosing to be ignorant of other people's divergent thinking I just think it's really important to know what's going on in our heads even if we can't control it