People Are Drastically Overconfident About

Reality' Is A Movie Generated By Our Brains. Because We Don't Realize This, We Are Far Too Confident That The Stuff Appearing In The Movie Is Actually 'out There' In The World When, In Fact, It's Not.

I Think Good Things Are Happening To Me And Will Continue. I Am Not Optimistic About The Rest Of The Species, But I'm So Blessed, It's Almost Scary. I'm Sorry To Disappoint You, But I Have A Wildly Sunny Disposition. I Love To Laugh.

Humans React To Danger When It Is Immediate, Immoral, Visible... Global Warming Does Not Press Any Of Those Buttons.

Alas, We Think Of Ourselves As Unique Entities-minds Unlike Any Others-and Thus We Often Reject The Lessons That The Emotional Experience Of Others Has To Teach Us.

The Fact That We Often Judge The Pleasure Of An Experience By Its Ending Can Cause Us To Make Some Curious Choices.