Long reads on how we actually think, decide and live.
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A ticket is not a bet on winning. It is a small, weekly permission to imagine.
The mind is built for a different world. It copes remarkably well with this one.
Before we try to fix people, it is worth understanding what they are for.
What feels like a preference is often just a default nobody questioned.
A small decision, repeated daily, is a life. Nobody designs it that way.
We did not evolve to be right. We evolved to be convincing, and to be hard to convince.
We are far better at explaining our choices than at making them.
It looks like a flaw in the person. Mostly it is a feature of the situation.