Oddbean new post about login | logout I think you are right, we have to actively fight our biological programming because we are in a novel information-heavy environment where better success can be had that way.
the specific example that made me realize this is whenever i would see a word i didn't know pronunciation of my brain would immediately start making assumptions about how it is pronounced and then eventually remember the pronunciation i made up as if i heard it somewhere ... instead now when i detect my brain is doing this i stop it and go to google or youtube to find the real pronunciation and try to remember that instead ...