Psychology of Mistakes: 7 Lazy Thinking Habits You Don't Notice You Have

Human beings, it turns out, are magnificently good at fooling themselves.

Sadly the mind has developed an elaborate way of hiding our worst thinking mistakes from us. Our shortcut-taking so instinctive we rarely notice it happening.

This episode explores seven of these habits and on the way answers a lot of questions. Why do we blame the referee and ignore our own missed shots? Why does a friend's anecdote beat a mountain of statistics? Why do the people who commit history's worst atrocities rarely think of themselves as villains?

I find it oddly...