The Good News Is That Going Blind

People Are Drastically Overconfident About Their Judgments Of Others.

In Short, We Derive Support For Our Preferred Conclusions By Listening To The Words That We Put In The Mouths Of People Who Have Already Been Preselected For Their Willingness To Say What We Want To Hear.

We Treat Our Future Selves As Though They Were Our Children, Spending Most Of The Hours Of Most Of Our Days Constructing Tomorrows That We Hope Will Make Them Happy

Perceptions Are Portraits, Not Photographs, And Their Form Reveals The Artist’s Hand Every Bit As Much As It Reflects The Things Portrayed

Most Of Us Appear To Believe That We Are More Athletic, Intelligent, Organized, Ethical, Logical, Interesting, Open-minded, And Healthy-not To Mention More Attractive-than The Average Person.