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Ch.8 “…we are fond of linguistic organization….The key to memory is finding a nice little place for every thought and if a statement isn’t meaningful enough to feel orderly and thus memorable all on its own forcing a pattern onto it, like rhyme will do the trick. Think of catchy political slogans.”

Ch.8 illusory truth effect

Ch.7 “next time we have a question let’s hold out for as long as we humanly can before googling the answer…it’s quite nice to just wonder…”

“By the way, humans are the only living species that have chins.” 🤯

Survivorship bias: “propensity to focus on positive outcomes while ignoring any accompanying misfortunes… beckons thinkers to draw incorrect conclusions about ‘why’ something turned out well by fixating too narrowly on the people or objects that made it past a certain benchmark, while overlooking those that didn’t”