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“By the way, humans are the only living species that have chins.” 🤯

Survivorship bias: “propensity to focus on positive outcomes while ignoring any accompanying misfortunes… beckons thinkers to draw incorrect conclusions about ‘why’ something turned out well by fixating too narrowly on the people or objects that made it past a certain benchmark, while overlooking those that didn’t”

zero-sum bias: “the false intuition that another party's gain directly means your loss”

“A toxic relationship is just a cult of one.”

Late 1960s & Early 70s America had more teenagers than before. Following the watergate scandal celebrity worship gave rise to Ronald Regan cause he was like an “outsider” to traditional politics. The Vietnam war made more Americans [white] feel like they couldn’t trust the government so politician worship was out and celebrity worship was in! (Of course not in its totality but like even more so)

the halo effect: “deceives the unconscious tendency to make positive assumptions about a person’s overall character based on our impressions of one single trait”