On the Self Serving Bias (Download) By Steve Beckow

[Manuel Tavares]

On the Self Serving Bias (Download)
By Steve Beckow
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-self-serving-bias.html

I’ve put together a booklet of essays on the self-serving bias. If you haven’t familiarized yourself with the concept and are planning to run a large corporation after the Reval, this is one you may want to have a look at.

Download a copy of On the Self-Serving Bias here:
https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/On-the-Self-Serving-Bias-2.pdf

Introduction

It seems to me that … the self-serving bias was one of the first notions I imbibed in my search to feel better than the angry, irritable, clever man I was. Surely life was not meant to be lived in such daily pain and suffering.

So I picked up Eric Berne’s Games People Play and the long journey to wellness began. If Berne did not explicitly discuss the self-serving bias (I can’t remember if he did), all the games he described were founded upon it.

There’s actually a broader perspective into which the self-serving bias fits as a strategy. I described that broader view as “Separate Selves Struggling for Survival amid Seeming Scarcity” in an article in this book. (1)...+
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-self-serving-bias.html