We're naturally wired to organize the world into a…

We're naturally wired to organize the world into a hierarchy. We do this to help make sense of the world, maintain our beliefs, and generally feel better.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Clear Thinking: The Art and Science of Making Better Decisions by Shane Parrish

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And notice what your mind did the instant it was dropped into that disorder: it set to work making sense of it — deducing principles, building models, predicting what comes next and judging what just happened. We are wired to organize the world into tidy hierarchies precisely so it will stop frightening us. You meet each new thing by sketching a quick map of it and comparing that map, in a fraction of a second, against all the maps you already carry. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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