If You Are Like Most People, Then

I Think Good Things Are Happening To Me And Will Continue. I Am Not Optimistic About The Rest Of The Species, But I'm So Blessed, It's Almost Scary. I'm Sorry To Disappoint You, But I Have A Wildly Sunny Disposition. I Love To Laugh.

The Human Brain Is The Only Object In The Known Universe That Can Predict Its Own Future And Tell Its On Fortune. The Fact That We Can Make Disastrous Decisions Even As We Foresee Their Consequences Is The Great, Unsolved Mystery Of Human Behavior. When You Hold Your Fate In Your Hands, Why Would You Ever Make A Fist?

The Brain And The Eye May Have A Contractual Relationship In Which The Brain Has Agreed To Believe What The Eye Sees, But In Return The Eye Has Agreed To Look For What The Brain Wants.

Reality' Is A Movie Generated By Our Brains. Because We Don't Realize This, We Are Far Too Confident That The Stuff Appearing In The Movie Is Actually 'out There' In The World When, In Fact, It's Not.

In Short, We Derive Support For Our Preferred Conclusions By Listening To The Words That We Put In The Mouths Of People Who Have Already Been Preselected For Their Willingness To Say What We Want To Hear.