It's always good to know

 It was July 2016. We were very much eager to watch the movie Kabali. We almost went to every theatre in Chennai and the ticket was not available for the next 3 days. Unfortunately , Albert theatre screened an extra show because of the huge demand. Movie was a good experience. Thanks not to the director but to the audience for running commentary. At the end of the day, I met my other hostel mate who has seen the movie twice the same day! That’s not even the shocking part. He said the movie was good the second time! 😲 We tend to justify all the things that we do and have. This is explained in an experiment by Festinger. Festinger conducted an experiment in which the participants were given a boring task and later they were asked to lie about the task saying how great the task was. Some participants were given $1 and some were given $20 to lie. (They would have to give me at least $5 trillion to lie because how good I am. This is called Joke) Later the participants were asked to r...

       Imagine you are sitting in a library📚 and a newspaper🗞 was kept on the opposite side. A person whom you have never met entered the room. He read the headline aloud (in a library!😠) and left. Now other person enters the room and asked to guess the first person’s IQ. You made a wild guess. He now asks for your IQ. You now evaluate your data that you have collected since your childhood and again you guessed. You will be 66 percent more accurate when guessing another person IQ than yours (You might give higher IQ score for yours). One of the reasons is because we are a lousy self-evaluator🤯. Another reason is you are not better than you think you are.       This is because we have unrealistic optimism. Unrealistic optimism is ignoring the chances that something bad might happen especially when it involves ourselves or we might (and are) think(ing) that we are better than our colleagues. Go to a marriage and ask the couple “Do you think you ...