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We’re driven to make up stories, true or false, as long as they seem to make sense and give significance and order to the amazing array of experiences we call life.

The straw man fallacy is a common rhetorical tactic whereby one gives the impression of attacking a position or argument that another has taken while actually attacking a false, distorted, misleading, weakened, or exaggerated version of that position or argument.

Our ability to think critically depends on our ability to overcome the many biases that lead us to self-deception.

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Fluctuations are to be expected.

Predicting the future of uncertain events is no better than a coin toss regardless of how fancy you think you are.

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