The concept of a "Filter Bubble" is relatively new to humanity. We have had filter bubbles for all of history (your tribe was the filtering mechanism). We are not presented with all sides of _anything_, because ain't nobody got time for that. Couple this with a general tendency of humans to reject that which is different and new, and you end up entrenched in your [[Growth Requires Discomfort|comfort zone]] of knowledge & beliefs. It's made much, much worse by the sheer _volume_ and _accessibility_ of a **huge** number of positions on a **vast** number of topics ranging every possible interest. The "most typical" direction I've seen this topic go is an analysis of politics. You are surrounded by people who have the same situation and roughly the same viewpoints as you for most of your waking hours, so it starts to become impossible to believe that "the other side of the aisle" is anything other than radicalized weirdos who don't have a grip on reality... which in reality the truth is somewhere in between.[^1] This plays out in other ways, though, too. I struggled with a realization in early 2024 that all of my reading and research on "productivity" and "happiness" and whatnot was pulling up the same general set of facts and opinions. I was confusing the same set of observations over and over, which made me accept them as facts. Many of them are scattered throughout [[My Notes]], actually. What they really represent, though, are sides of arguments. For example: For every argument about the virtue of "[[Focus]]", there is an unheard pitch on the value of [[Range vs Specialization|range]]. You end up with something like this: ![[Pasted image 20241201125418.png]] **** # More ## Source - DtotheFull Instagram repost on the image ## Related [^1]: except in some cases I firmly refuse to believe.