Definition: The tendency to blame other people's failures on internal causes, while attributing our own failures to external circumstances.
Insight: Most people examine others' failures differently to their own.
Insight: We attribute others' failures to the person: their lack of knowledge, expertise, or personality flaws.
Insight: We are not good at looking at our own flaws: we blame external circumstances, and ignore internal causes.
Insight: We tend not to learn well from mistakes. Rather than adapting to feedback we rationalise our actions, and become dismissive.
Definition: The feeling that we have a better chance at success in a situation than we objectively do.
Insight: Introducing factors that drive success, such as practice and involvement, into games of chance can create irrational levels of confidence and the illusion of control over predicting what cannot be predicted.
Insight: When people do not have a sense of control they search for patterns even where they do not exist in an attempt to have control.
"The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome."
- Isaac Asimov
Insight: The mindset of fear prevents us from being creative.
