The very act of looking down on others made people more confident.
You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself. If you fail, you forget it. If you win, you tell everyone.
You are a story you tell yourself.
You are always looking for risks and rewards, but when you want to believe something is good you will unconsciously turn down the volume on the bad qualities, and vice versa.
You are always under the influence of irrational reasoning. You persist in a state of deluded deliberation. You are terrible at explaining yourself to yourself, and you are unaware of the depth and br...
You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that’s OK, it keeps you sane.
You are aware only of a small amount of the total information your eyes take in, and even less is processed by your conscious mind and remembered.
You are biased to overestimate the emotional impact of future events.
You are unaware of the constant nudging you receive from ideas formed in your unconscious mind.
Matter how good you’ve got it, you are no stranger to tears.
You can see the proof in an MRI scan of someone presented with political opinions that conflict with her own. The brain scans of a person shown statements that oppose her political stance show that th...
You can try to fight it back. You can buy a daily planner and a to-do list application for your phone. You can write yourself notes and fill out schedules. You can become a productivity junkie surroun...
You expect better performances from attractive people, but when they fail, you are also more likely to forgive them.
You don’t believe you are an average person, but you do believe everyone else is. This tendency, which springs from self-serving bias, is called the illusory superiority effect.
You make plans and decisions assuming randomness and chaos are for chumps. The illusion of control is a peculiar thing because it often leads to high self-esteem and a belief your destiny is yours for...
You might be a great judge of character, but you need to be a great judge of evidence to avoid delusion.
You see people who speak slowly as being less intelligent—slow.
You sold out long ago in one way or another. The specifics of who you sell to and how much you make—those are only details.
Those who believe failure is not an option never plan for it.
You will soon realize you are not so smart, and thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics, and common fallacies of thought, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just t...
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