Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

A quote from the movie Under Siege 2.

In this episode, we're going to be discussing assumptions and the crucial role that they play within

epistemology. This is going to be a foundational epistemic episode. I talk about

epistemology a lot.

Epistemology just basically means

how do we know what we know?

It's the principles behind the gathering

of accurate knowledge or understanding of reality. And that's very important as you're trying to grow and develop yourself

because if you don't have an accurate understanding of reality

or you have various kinds of self-deceptions and epistemic errors within your worldview

that's going to distort how you go about developing yourself and try to be successful in life. And so a lot of the failures that come

very practically in your life,

whether you're trying to start a business

or you're trying to get romantic with somebody in a relationship or you're trying to educate yourself,

you're trying to do spirituality, whatever you're trying to do that comes with hidden

assumptions and epistemic errors and self-deceptions, which then lead to lots of failure and misery and suffering.

So that's why this topic is so practical and important.

So assumption lies at the heart of all epistemic error,

self-deception, and untruthfulness.

These are topics that I've covered a lot in the past.

Go check out my three-part series called Self--Dception Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

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