One of things that we're trying to do in this course is give a realistic idea about
how the mind is actually working so we can take that and use it to improve our everyday thinking.
The world is extremely complex and extremely ambiguous, so most of the decisions that we're
making aren't immediately apparent.
There is a lot of mental life that is completely effortless, and then there is some of mental life that feels like work.
We're operating under less-than-ideal conditions, and so we have to rely on shortcuts in order
to be able to navigate the world, obviously.
The world is complex and ambiguous. There's so much information coming at us, sometimes
misinformation. How do we deal with it all?
Merely telling people how to do something is not going to turn them into experts, and
repeatedly telling them the same thing is not going to help. It's a lot of practice, with feedback.