[DanielRibeiro]

we function exactly the opposite of how this essay suggests

Not sure if that is the case, but pg wrote last year[1]:

A YC partner wrote:

My feeling with the bad groups is that coming into office hours, they've already decided what they're going to do and everything I say is being put through an internal process in their heads, which either desperately tries to munge what I've said into something that conforms with their decision or just outright dismisses it and creates a rationalization for doing so ...

[1] http://paulgraham.com/word.html

[k__]

If this happens too often, the person with the ideas is probably the problem, not the "bad" groups

[seanmcdirmid]

I.e. confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance?