Be Stupid

When dealing with a problem that you cannot solve, the smartest thing you can do is to be dumb. We all deal with new information by using a mental mechanism called Confirmation Bias. That means people tend to listen, focus on, and remember that which confirms their beliefs, and they tend to ignore and forget what does not. We want new information to confirm what we already think or believe, or else we face the internal conflict of being wrong. The longer we have held a belief the more we use Confirmation Bias. The greatest discoveries and inventions, however, were made by people willing to be completely stupid. It was once believed man could never fly. The Wright brothers were dumb enough to learn we could.