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perception · full episode

10 reasons your perception is unreliable

  1. 0:00You like something simply because you see it often
  2. 0:30Your presence in a room matters less than you feel
  3. 0:56You judge a person's intelligence by their physical beauty
  4. 1:25You believe you are more observant than you are
  5. 1:46You blame the victim to feel safer yourself
  6. 2:10You believe you see the world objectively as it is
  7. 2:33You overestimate how much the world focuses on you
  8. 2:58You focus on one event while ignoring context
  9. 3:26You assume you are safer than everyone else
  10. 3:46Your brain ignores most of an experience to save energy