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The Skeptics Guide #918 - Feb 11 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Most Common Positive Illusions

The most common positive illusions would be like exaggerating your good traits over estimating your degree of control over events and sustaining unrealistic optimism. And so maintaining the cognitive bias of a positive illusion can actually heavily shoot you in the foot. We forget that our thoughts don't interact with anything unless we say them, unless we use them or unless we physically have behaviors linked to them. So if we're just trying to quote manifest, which is what all these videos on TikTok are, it's like repeat this three times. It's magic. Yeah.

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