Describe two of the pathological tendencies of the mind and

Describe two of the pathological tendencies of the mind and elaborate on ways that you can seek to challenge and correct those tendencies in your own thinking.

Solution

Egocentric blindness: It is tendency to deny facts that do not support our values

This kind of tendency is quite common in many modern societies, There are many facts that we all see but deny their existance,

Racism and intolerence to other religions is the best example of egocentric blindness, We deny completely that racism exist and we also deny we are intolerant.

This kind of behvior can be correct by proper education about others, People must be educated to respect all men and women equally and must also be thought about tolerance

The very idea of democracy and modern society is based on equality.

Egocentric myopia: It is tendency to think in absolutist way about very narrow thing.

This kind of behavior do not consider others opinion and they just go ahead with very narrow view and approach

Ex: selection of failed car model based on self acquired mis-information

Such people do not consider opinion of others, their ego centric behavior makes them to think that only their view is correct and others just do not know anything.

To challenge such behavior we must study and accept facts and figures, We must challenge our own ego with technical and statistical knowledge.