# Quote — Greg Craven, What's the Worst That Could Happen?

> Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remove that huge handicap that we all share—the tendency for our beliefs to drift toward what we want to be true.

- Author: [Greg Craven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven.md)
- Book: [What's the Worst That Could Happen?](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen.md)
- Page: 66
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Craven#What's_the_Worst_That_Could_Happen%3F:_A_Rational_Response_to_the_Climate_Change_Debate_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/knowing-how-to-combat

## More from this book

> New breakthrough technologies can make it easier, but we've already got, right now, everything we need to accomplish the task of transforming our energy economy away from fossil fuels. Except the willingness.

p. 218 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/new-breakthrough-technologies.md)

> Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence.

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/try-to-keep.md)

> The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions.

p. 19 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-craven/whats-the-worst-that-could-happen/the-clever-part.md)