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The mind is built for a different world. It copes remarkably well with this one.
It looks like a flaw in the person. Mostly it is a feature of the situation.
We are far better at explaining our choices than at making them.
Economists have a model. The rest of us have a Tuesday.
What feels like a preference is often just a default nobody questioned.
Not every irrational act is a mistake. Some are the point.
Most advice assumes a person who never existed.
The story we tell afterwards is tidier than the choice we made at the time.
A small decision, repeated daily, is a life. Nobody designs it that way.