We Can't Live In A State Of

You Can Always Find An Evolutionary Quotation For Anything. But The Question Is Whether It's Functional, Which Is Not The Same As Being Evolutionary.

Our Memory Tells Us Stories, That Is, What We Get To Keep From Our Experiences Is A Story.

A General Limitation Of The Human Mind Is Its Imperfect Ability To Reconstruct Past States Of Knowledge, Or Beliefs That Have Changed. Once You Adopt A New View Of The World (or Any Part Of It), You Immediately Lose Much Of Your Ability To Recall What You Used To Believe Before Your Mind Changed.

We're Generally Overconfident In Our Opinions And Our Impressions And Judgments.

When Action Is Needed, Optimism, Even Of The Mildly Delusional Variety, May Be A Good Thing.