5 Strategies to Overcome Confirmation Bias in Your Personal Narratives

5 Strategies to Overcome Confirmation Bias in Your Personal Narratives. We gravitate towards people who are like us and will most likely believe what we believe. When confronted with information that challenges our personal narrative, we consider the other person as either ignorant, evil or outright stupid. The desire to be right crushes the intent to find the objective truth - being wrong is considered bad, criticism is viewed as an attack on our personality and disagreements are regarded as time-wasting activities that do not add value.