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LESSON 7 · The Mental Models Playbook

PAUSE TO THINK

Why are our brains wired to suspect bad intent in the first place?

False alarms were safer

A false alarm cost a little wasted caution, but a missed genuine threat could be fatal. So evolution over-tuned us toward suspicion, which is exactly the reflex Hanlon's Razor asks you to override.

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