Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.

Remember, if you succeed in everything you try in life, you're living below your full potential and you should take up more difficult or daring things.