Resilience is treated as a virtue. It isn't—it's an adaptation to a problem you haven't solved. Teaching people to bounce back from bad situations is more convenient than asking why they're in them.
Empathy—feeling what others feel—is widely treated as the foundation of morality. It isn't. It's a bias that systematically directs concern toward the vivid and the nearby, away from whoever actually needs help most. Feeling more doesn't make you more moral; it makes you more manipulable.
Intelligence doesn't make you better at finding truth. It makes you better at arguing. These aren't the same thing—and confusing them produces a specific kind of error: confident, sophisticated, and nearly impervious to correction.