Your Brain is Not Your Friend – lifehack.org

October 14th, 2007

And of course this affects everyone but me.

*snort*

Good people’s talents are overlooked because we don’t like the looks of them. The worst aspects of our personalities are brought to the fore because of a subtle environmental cue, like a briefcase on a table. We imagine things that aren’t there — and get offended when others have the audacity to question our observations.

Last night on CSI, (OK, last night when I was watching Tivo’d CSI from Thursday) Grissom was interviewing a man who had tried to exorcise a demon from a girl. He asked Grissom if he believed in a separate evil entity. I can’t find the script online yet so, paraphrased, Grissom said something like “You’re out on the savannah and you see movement from the corner of your eye. You assume it’s a hyena and you run. You’re safe. You assume it’s just the wind, and you’re wrong, you die. We have the genes of those who ran. We’re predisposed to believe in things we can’t see.”

What would the world be like if we were able to truly behave rationally?

Also I dreamed that my bottom canine teeth broke off at the root all of a sudden because I didn’t floss enough.

And today I am painting that bedroom, goddammit.

Mood : pissy Music : Placebo - Running up that Hill