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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 512ca14 | Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push-ups. | David McRaney | ||
| 8bcdc42 | When a kid asks, "But, why?" she is rightfully bringing to the attention of the adult world that all this stuff is just made up and mostly arbitrary nonsense often clung to for some long-forgotten reason." | David McRaney | ||
| c56cefb | If you think catharsis is good, you are more likely to seek it out when you get pissed. | David McRaney | ||
| 6167410 | 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. | David McRaney | ||
| 4c1a5a6 | Anosognosia sufferers are paralyzed but won't admit it. They tell their doctors and loved ones they have severe arthritis or need to watch their weight if asked to move their incapacitated arm to take a piece of candy. They lie, but they don't know they are lying. The deception is only directed inward. They truly believe the fiction. * A person with Capgras delusion believes their close friends and family have been replaced by impostors. Th.. | David McRaney | ||
| e326b77 | 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. | David McRaney | ||
| 9457a6b | You are a liar by default, and you lie most to yourself. If you fail, you forget it. If you win, you tell everyone. | David McRaney | ||
| 9358201 | THE MISCONCEPTION: If you are in a bad situation, you will do whatever you can do to escape it. THE TRUTH: If you feel like you aren't in control of your destiny, you will give up and accept whatever situation you are in. | David McRaney | ||
| f3808e4 | 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 made you who you are today. Babies don't have that. That sense is built around events that you can recall and place in time. Babies and small children have what Hood calls "unconscious knowledge," which is to say they simply recognize patterns and.. | David McRaney | ||
| ca9f6f2 | 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. | David McRaney | ||
| 0b50a10 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You evaluate yourself based on past successes and defeats. THE TRUTH: You excuse your failures and see yourself as more successful, more intelligent, and more skilled than you are. | David McRaney | ||
| 080454a | You, too, are unaware of how unaware you are | David McRaney | ||
| 8494516 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You know why you like the things you like and feel the way you feel. THE TRUTH: The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to you, and when pressed to explain them, you will just make something up. | David McRaney | ||
| 8f4ce6c | THE MISCONCEPTION: If you can't trust someone, you should ignore that person's claims. THE TRUTH: What someone says and why they say it should be judged separately. | David McRaney | ||
| d825265 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE TRUTH: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time. | David McRaney | ||
| 3d4d48b | THE MISCONCEPTION: People who are losing at the game of life must have done something to deserve it. THE TRUTH: The beneficiaries of good fortune often do nothing to earn it, and bad people often get away with their actions without consequences. | David McRaney | ||
| 8716a62 | Did we really put a man on the moon? If you are looking for proof we didn't, you can find it. | David McRaney | ||
| 2bf30d3 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only an expert can truly distinguish, and experienced tasters are impervious to deception. THE TRUTH: Wine experts and consumers can be fooled by altering their expectations. | David McRaney | ||
| b720c30 | The tendency to make poor decisions and ignore odds in favor of your gut feelings is called the affect heuristic. | David McRaney | ||
| 3c5bae6 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You know how much control you have over your surroundings. THE TRUTH: You often believe you have control over outcomes that are either random or are too complex to predict. | David McRaney | ||
| b997e1c | THE MISCONCEPTION: Other people's behavior is the reflection of their personality. THE TRUTH: Other people's behavior is more the result of the situation than their disposition. | David McRaney | ||
| 0afb8d3 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You prefer the things you own over the things you don't because you made rational choices when you bought them. THE TRUTH: You prefer the things you own because you rationalize your past choices to protect your sense of self. | David McRaney | ||
| 450989d | You are as deluded as the rest of us, but that's OK, it keeps you sane. | David McRaney | ||
| 5ddc2e0 | Remember, your capacity to fool yourself is greater than the abilities of any conjurer, and conjurers come in many guises. You are a creature impelled to hope. As you attempt to make sense of the world, you focus on what falls into place and neglect that which doesn't fit, and there is so much in life that does not fit. | David McRaney | ||
| bb29bfb | 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. | David McRaney | ||
| 20544a5 | Artik firmalar, barlara ve kuluplere gidip alt kulturlerin nelerden hoslandigini gozlemlemeleri icin insanlari ise aliyorlar ve bulduklari seyler daha populer olurken alisveris merkezlerinin vitrinlerine yerlestiriyorlar. Karsi kultur, bagimsiz film hayranlari ve underground yildizlari -onlar kapitalizmin arkasindaki itici guctur. Bunlar motordur. Bu da bizi su noktaya getiriyor: Tuketiciler arasindaki rekabet kapitalizmin jet motorudur. Si.. | David McRaney | ||
| f27940d | You can't prime yourself directly, but you can create environments conducive to the mental states you wish to achieve. Just like the | David McRaney | ||
| cdb157b | It turns out, for any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who doesn't give a shit if he or she gets fired or exiled or excommunicated. | David McRaney | ||
| acaa956 | If your group includes a person who can hire or fire, groupthink comes into play. | David McRaney | ||
| a46bc9d | Many treatments have turned out over the years to be no better than placebos, and placebos, we have learned, are now known to be one of the strongest anomalies of the mind. | David McRaney | ||
| f6f78a7 | The more info you get about a statement, the more likely you are to believe that statement. | David McRaney | ||
| 6c9b09d | This sets you up to be more afraid of terrorists than home furniture, even though falling couches and televisions take more lives each year. | David McRaney | ||
| 3a3dc6e | You and everyone else come into the world preloaded with these pesky and completely wrong ways of seeing things, and you rarely notice them. | David McRaney | ||
| 35dabfc | A bias is a tendency to think in one way when other options are just as good, if not better. | David McRaney | ||
| cba59b7 | 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 breadth of your faults in this regard. You feel quite the opposite, actually. You maintain an unrealistic confidence in your own perceptions even after your limitations are revealed. | David McRaney | ||
| e5a99ac | THE MISCONCEPTION: Clothes as everyday objects are just fabrics for protection and decoration of the body. THE TRUTH: The clothes you wear change your behavior and can either add or subtract from your mental abilities. | David McRaney | ||
| 0d20809 | 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. | David McRaney | ||
| 5338782 | What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can never win an argument online. When you start to pull out facts and figures, hyperlinks and quotes, you are actually making the opponent feel even surer of his position than before you started the debate. As he matches your fervor, the same thing happens in your skull. The backfire effect pushes both of you deeper into your original beliefs. Climate scientist John Cook.. | David McRaney | ||
| 4a5b4d7 | The best bluff, it turns out, is the one in which even the bluffer is unaware of the cards he is holding. | David McRaney | ||
| 3939b34 | When the third person effect leads you to condone censorship, take a step back and imagine the sort of messages people on the other side might think are brainwashing you, and then ask yourself if those messages should be censored too. | David McRaney | ||
| 734f989 | The next time you get a pimple on your forehead, or buy a new pair of shoes, or Tweet about how boring your day is, don't expect anyone to notice. You are not so smart or special. | David McRaney | ||
| 65301d2 | THE MISCONCEPTION: There is a Rolodex in your mind with the names and faces of everyone you've ever known. THE TRUTH: You can maintain relationships and keep up with only around 150 people at once. | David McRaney | ||
| f844db2 | How do you separate fantasy from reality? How can you be sure the story of your life both from long ago and minute to minute is true? There is a pleasant vindication to be found when you accept that you can't. No one can, yet we persist and thrive. Who you think you are is sort of like a movie based on true events, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The details may be embellished, but the big picture, the general idea, is probably a good.. | David McRaney | ||
| 18762c6 | THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status. | David McRaney |