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Often a species’ most important competitor is itself. Thus the redwood tree is locked in an evolutionary arms race — or in this case, a “height race”—with itself. It grows tall because other redwoods are tall, and if it doesn’t throw most of its effort into growing upward as fast as possible, it will literally wither and die in the shadows of its rivals.

Introspection illusion - the fact that we don’t know our own minds nearly as well as we pretend to.
At very single stage – from its biased arrival to its biased encoding, to organising it around false logic to misremembering and then misrepresenting it to others – the mind continually acts to distort information flow in favor of the usual goal of appearing better that one really is.