seriously just learn about all the various cognitive biases and actively counteract them and you will be halfway to being as wise as i am

most of the mistakes people make are well understood and documented ... but nobody wants to learn this stuff because people prefer feeling good and believing that they are right to actually being right

nobody actually wants to be right - people just want to be told that they are right while continuing to to be wrong in exactly the same way as always never having to change

i learned this the hard way by spending the last 20 years trying to open their eyes