Why It Stays Hidden

Your brain has a blind spot aimed straight at its own mistakes. Psychologists call it the bias blind spot: you can see exactly where a friend's emotions or wishful thinking warped their view, while feeling that your own take is just clear-eyed and fair.

The fix is intellectual humility: a genuine, working belief that you might be wrong. Not a polite show of modesty, but a real operating rule you apply to your own conclusions.