A Failure Doesn't Mean You Are Unworthy,

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.

We Also Use Our Imagination And Take Shortcuts To Fill Gaps In Patterns Of Nonvisual Data. As With Visual Input, We Draw Conclusions And Make Judgments Based On Uncertain And Incomplete Information, And We Conclude, When We Are Done Analyzing The Patterns, That Out Picture Is Clear And Accurate. But Is It?

Science Has Revealed A Universe That Is Vast, Ancient, Violent, Strange, And Beautiful, A Universe Of Almost Infinite Variety And Possibility One In Which Time Can End In A Black Hole, And Conscious Beings Can Evolve From A Soup Of Minerals.

Our Inner Weighing Of Evidence Is Not A Careful Mathematical Calculation Resulting In A Probabilistic Estimate Of Truth, But More Like A Whirlpool Blending Of The Objective And The Personal. The Result Is A Set Of Beliefs - Both Conscious And Unconscious - That Guide Us In Interpreting All The Events Of Our Lives.

Listeners Instinctively Detect That When We Lower The Usual Pitch Of Our Voice, We Are Sad, And When We Raise It, We Are Angry Or Fearful.