Being Able to Spot Flaws in Others' Reasoning Doesn't Make You Immune

We're excellent at noticing logical errors in other people's thinking and terrible at catching our own. This is the bias blind spot: the belief that we see the world more objectively than others do. Intellectual sharpness directed outward is not the same as self-awareness. The person who can dissect everyone else's arguments but never questions their own is not a clear thinker — they're a skilled debater with a blind spot the size of their ego.