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Why do we like to be correct?

Not Overthinking

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You Can't Give Yourself Credit for Knowing the Thing, but Sorry, I'm Not Wrong

i've been doing close a magic for the last eight years of my life. When you show people a trick, there are always those people whow'll be like, "Oh, well, i saw youbla" And just because they've got that small piece of knowledge, they would almost discount everything else and then be like, oh, i know how it was done. As a magician, you've got to like, a sort of, do i want to entertain this guy? This guy clearly wants to score some points,. ecause, ey, impress the girls in the group, and he's trying to beei'm smart, look at me. I hope we all grow

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