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“There was this book I read once that talked about the psychology of people in survival situations. How humans have a hard time rewriting the script in their head. Did you know in an emergency people tend to escape out the door they came in, even if it’s not the safest route, because that’s the door they know? They’ll run right into the danger they’re trying to get out of, just because it’s familiar. I think about that like once a day. Most people go their whole life like that, escaping out the door they know. It actually changed the way I live my life.” “How’s that?” I said. “I ask myself if I’m doing something because it’s what I’m used to, or if I’m doing it because it’s objectively the best thing to do.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met