"It ain"t what you don"t know that gets you into trouble, It"s what you know for sure that just ain"t so"

"It ain"t what you don"t know that gets you into trouble, It"s what you know for sure that just ain"t so".
~ from the movie "The Big Short"

Why is it that people don"t like this quote? Can you guess?

I see it all the time. People are quite certain that what they know is true, and are puzzled by the fact that they don"t feel good about themselves, about their place in the world, about their lives.

This includes smart people, and this includes people who are not that sophisticated.

We, as a species, are full of knowledge that just isn"t so. And when we build theories, actions, futures, arguments on those untruths, then things don"t work.
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