We Believe That When We Choose Anything,

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.

Regression Toward The Mean. That Is, In Any Series Of Random Events An Extraordinary Event Is Most Likely To Be Followed, Due Purely To Chance, By A More Ordinary One.

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

We Believe That When We Choose Anything, Judge A Stranger And Even Fall In Love, We Understand The Principal Factors That Influenced Us. Very Often Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth. As A Result, Many Of Our Most Basic Assumptions About Ourselves, And Society, Are False.

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.