Trevyn Hubbs

“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”
― Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves

“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.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“Psychologists tell us that in order to learn from experience, two ingredients are necessary: frequent practice and immediate feedback.”
― Richard H Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics