Our prejudices often rob us from seeing what is in front of us.
Prejudice is a simple two-part word: pre-judge. Meaning: judge from some simple criteria, like the color of someone"s skin, the strength of their grammar, their clothing, or whether they curse or not.
And then we stop looking, because the judgment is already there: this or that.
Pre-judging is a cognitive bias, it is the mind"s attempt to save you time. It is accurate for our purposes of survival, about 60% of the time. 40% of the time it is inaccurate, and leads to stupid, self-defeating decisions.
Most people get married based on a the 40%, hire people, buy stuff, or not buy, reject perfectly good matches.
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