Want to Acquire Breakthrough Knowledge? Open your Mind!

If this article challenges your existing world view — consider yourself lucky. That’s what breakthrough knowledge does. It provides disconfirming evidence. It makes you see something that you hadn’t seen before. Something that challenges your existing assumptions and offers new insights.

Breakthrough knowledge can be unsettling. It can move you from certainty to uncertainty. That’s ok. The truth however unsettling is always preferable to the comfort of false certainty. Hopefully, you will read something here that opens your mind to an alternative perspective — a perspective that can provide you with “breakthrough knowledge” — knowledge that allows you to see the truth more clearly.

Most people do not watch news sources that challenge their existing world view. This is how media echo-chambers and thought silos are created, developed and maintained. It’s incredibly dangerous and we are only now beginning to see the consequences of it’s sustained effects.

FOX appeals to conservative confirmation biases. MSNBC and CNN appeal to liberal confirmation biases. They all continuously feed their viewers information that conforms to their existing world views. These media outlets want to build and maintain market share. They don’t want their viewers leaving. They don’t want to upset or disappoint them. And they…