Fallacy #4: Hindsight is twenty-twenty. False. There’s no truth in that at all. What you see in the rearview mirror of your life is never what actually happened. You’re just inventing explanations that let you sleep at night. Hindsight, at best, is Coke-bottle glasses, with lenses that distort everything. It’s why they say eyewitness accounts at crime scenes are the least accurate kinds of evidence. What you firmly believe you saw is rarely what you actually saw. In that way, we’re all creating our own realities.
