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The Hindsight Bias of the Human Mind
Many psychologists have studied what happens when people change their minds. When you adopt a new view of the world, or of any part of it, you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed. Your inability to reconstruct past beliefs will inevitably cause you to underestimate the extent to which you were surprised by past events.