Once we start listening for it, we hear a chorus out in the world like I heard during breaks in poker tournaments: “things are going great because I’m making such good decisions”; “things went poorly because I got so unlucky.” That’s what the lawyer heard from his senior partner in each evening’s postmortem of the trial. That’s what we heard from Chris Christie in the 2016 Republican presidential debate. That’s what I heard in every poker room I was ever in.
