Our Inner Weighing Of Evidence Is Not

A Failure Doesn't Mean You Are Unworthy, Nor Does It Preclude Success On The Next Try.

We Also Use Our Imagination And Take Shortcuts To Fill Gaps In Patterns Of Nonvisual Data. As With Visual Input, We Draw Conclusions And Make Judgments Based On Uncertain And Incomplete Information, And We Conclude, When We Are Done Analyzing The Patterns, That Out Picture Is Clear And Accurate. But Is It?

One Thing That Feeds Into The Way You Experience The Social World Is Your Mood - And One Thing That Affects Your Mood Is The Weather.

What I've Learned, Above All, Is To Keep Marching Forward Because The Best News Is That Since Chance Does Play A Role, One Important Factor In Success Is Under Our Control: The Number Of At Bats, The Number Of Chances Taken, The Number Of Opportunities Seized.

When We Are In The Grasp Of Illusion - Or, For That Matter, Whenever We Have A New Idea - Instead Of Searching For Ways To Prove Our Ideas Wrong, We Usually Attempt To Prove Them Correct. Psychologists Call This The Confirmation Bias, And It Presents A Major Impediment Of Our Ability To Break Free From The Misinterpretation Of Randomness.