Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

Loserthink isn’t about being dumb, and it isn’t about being underinformed. Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking.

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Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

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People who have good arguments use them. People who do not have good arguments try to win by labeling.

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Occam’s razor is the idea that the simplest explanation of events is usually the right one.

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When I need to dial up my ego, I remind myself that the people I am about to deal with are a lot like me, in the sense that they too are only pretending to be confident and capable.

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We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.

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