“ It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. ”
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
~ Daniel Kahneman
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
