Hindsight Bias Makes Surprises Vanish.

The Dominance Of Conclusions Over Arguments Is Most Pronounced Where Emotions Are Involved.

A General Limitation Of The Human Mind Is Its Imperfect Ability To Reconstruct Past States Of Knowledge, Or Beliefs That Have Changed. Once You Adopt A New View Of The World (or Any Part Of It), You Immediately Lose Much Of Your Ability To Recall What You Used To Believe Before Your Mind Changed.

We Deeply Want To Be Led By People Who Know What They're Doing And Who Don't Have To Think About It Too Much.

We Don’t Choose Between Experiences, We Choose Between Memories Of Experiences. Even When We Think About The Future, We Don’t Think Of Our Future Normally As Experiences. We Think Of Our Future As Anticipated Memories.

In Essence, The Optimistic Style Involves Taking Credit For Successes But Little Blame For Failures.