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Hidden motives | |
2018.07.29 13:46:22 CEST | |
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I started preparing my keynote speech at Gophercon and I will be | |
speaking about hidden motives, rationalizations and the decision- | |
making process working with technology. Most, if not all, the | |
people I work with personally try to be as data-driven as possible | |
about their decisions, but do they really? | |
I've been reading a lot about the distinction between real hidden | |
motivations and the rationalizations we tell ourselves. | |
Unfortunately it seems there is a real gap there: we do something | |
and then our brains reverse-engineer the decision, convincing | |
ourselves that's the reason we did that one thing to begin with. | |
It's mind-bending (I should say mind breaking), but learning about | |
this helped myself a lot and I want to share it with others. |