In this entrance room, we learned about Anchoring. Anchoring is one of the most basic, yet most amazing psychological phenomena. It’s a weak effect, but it is present.
We start with this example, to show a foundational idea. Your mind is not your own.
This is an important concept. We feel like our mind is our own. We feel like made an independent decision. We feel we chose freely. But that is an illusion and the sooner we accept that, the sooner we can build systems that take our biases into account.
The Anchor Room