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"Sometimes a change in perspective is all it takes to reveal the Truth."

The eagerness to find personal truth in general statements was known as the Barnum effect – so name for the sideshow "personality tests" P.T. Barnum had employed to fool so many circus goers into believing he had psychic powers.

"'I show you this for a simple reason - to remind us that human perception is riddled with blind spots,' Catherine concluded. 'Sometimes we're so busy looking the wrong way… That we don't see what's right before her eyes.'"