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@anne_the_noob14… ah. Alas, I am disappointed my pinto bean example didn’t work. I guess I was working to far within the realm of possibility. But! Here you show the weakness of your argument. For in the example of the bean… what you show is the realm of possibility, as far as you know. You explain it to a T… which means all of it can be expected. This makes not expecting a desired outcome detachment from emotional expectation. It is whether you want it to happen one way or another. Both are possible, and that you acknowledge, so you relieve yourself from the tension of bias.

When I refer to the unexpected… I speak of a place where bias in impossible. A place where the unexpected is that which cannot be prepared for, because it is not within the realm of being known. It might be “known” as something that could happen, but only by fantasy or extremity. Or maybe it is not known that such a thing could happen, nor even expected to come from such a place, so it catches off guard. This is not the quelling of expectation… but a place where expectation can’t be quelled. And in saying your expecting the unexpected makes it all expected, you blind yourself to that which will surprise. *bows* Don’t confuse quelling bias with expecting the unexpected. For that… that is a paradoxical thing.