Confirmation Bias

The easiest thing to find evidence for is that thing in which you want to believe. Not that you always find what you're looking for, mind you, but it is perilously simple to convince ourselves that what we've found was what we were looking for all along. If its appearance was somewhat other than we expected, well, stories change with time and not one of us is right all of the time. Whether we admit that or not is another story.

When I was young, perhaps ten or twelve - this was before my Fath...