>I had, also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from memory than favorable ones >-- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species You should always be most curious about the times that you may be proven wrong. For two reasons: * You're working against the [[Gravitational pull|gravity]] of confirmation bias * This is the maximum amount of [surprise](https://thecompendium.cards/c/48ac50), highest amount of update to your Bayesian priors. Annie Duke explains the same concept in [[Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke(annotated)|Thinking in Bets]], she calls it focusing on disconfirming evidence. This will by definition be somewhat painful, due to [[Seek mental hypertrophy|mental hypertrophy]]. #published 2025-01-25