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Scott Adams on Trump, and his book Loserthink – #47

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Are You Trying to Be Confident?

Dilbert: I was shocked by the confidence with which people at the firm that i worked at would assert things w they're theyre incentivied, right in to appear confide. A set of systems where you're really penalized for being wrong is ta. We are creatures who act and when we don't know what to do, it doesn't stop us from acting. That's what cognitive dissonance is. It's when you do something irrational, but then you try to rationalize it after the fact. And nothing else, virtue signalling or knowing what other people want you to say, actually just drives you to form an opinion.

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