David McRaney Quotes

The very act of looking down on others made people more confident.

First impressions are difficult to change.

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One of the best things about owning a brain is how you often seem to phase out of normalcy and briefly see your culture with a weirdly objective frame of mind. At some point every child realizes money...

When it comes to buying lottery tickets, fearing the West Nile virus, looking for child molesters, and so on, you use the availability heuristic first and the facts second.

To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.

If you fail to believe you will procrastinate or become idealustic about how awesome you are at working hard and managing your time, you never develop a strategy for outmaneuvering your own weakness.

The flow of consciousness is one thing; the recollection of its course is another, yet you usually see them as the same. This is one of the oldest concepts in psychology and philosophy—phenomenology.

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.

When you fear you will confirm a negative stereotype, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy not because the stereotype is true, but because you can't stop worrying that you could become an example...

As psychologist Bruce Hood writes in his book The Self Illusion, you have an origin story and a sense that you’ve traveled from youth to now along a linear path, with ups and downs that ultimately mad...

If you think catharsis is good, you are more likely to seek it out when you get pissed.

Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.

A long day of dealing with bullshit often leads to an evening of no-decision television ...

So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you.

THE TRUTH: You are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others.

You see people who speak slowly as being less intelligent—slow.

You are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of denser behavioral routines that only appear to give rise to consciousness.

İnsanları değerlerini satmakla suçlayanlar, elinde kimsenin almak isteyeceği şeyler olmayan satıcılardır. - Patton Oswalt