The "R" word?
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- Khurram0
I'm almost finished a book called "A Mind of Its Own - How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives"
There's a chapter in it called "The Vain Brain", which is about how our egos shield us from the truth, painting specifically rosey picture in the face of contrary evidence.
"We think it will be so, simply because we would prefer it to be so."
As in people who smoke and think "well, i'll never get lung cancer, i'll be in the small percent who escape."
But really, it is quite natural. According to psychologists, there is only one category of people whose perceptions are more balanced and closer to reality. - who assign success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. They are the clinically depressed.
So yeah...
- I think for other people it boils down to an issue of Faith. Not to sugarcoat or be delusional about anything. But to accept that it is completely out of your control.designbot
- completely out of your control.designbot
- Dude you read far too many "How The Brain" books.SkyPoo
- You don't read enuogh...Khurram
- I've read more about that than you might realise. Enough to know that 'know thyself' is the moral of the story.SkyPoo
- it's not a competition.Khurram