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.

[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

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

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

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.

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!