But your mind is far from perfect.
Sometimes, it forgets key details, like an overdue dentist appointment or a meeting with a client.
At the very least, these brain blips are annoying.
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The fact is, brain drain is the problemand its inevitable.
In reality,traveling by air is much safer than traveling by car.
When thehindsight biasis at play, you might declare, I knew we were going to lose!
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Attributional bias can make you judge a person unfairly.
Maybe they were just overwhelmed by how many orders they had to make.
At the same time, you ignore or discount anything that opposes your beliefs.
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They can even affect how you interact with the world.
More specifically, your mind wants to find somethingor someoneto blame for the misfortune.
Here’s an example: You got badly sunburned after a day at the beach.
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Why do we engage in the blame game?
While that can be true, there are times when its also just a matter of timing and luck.
It can be surprisingly easy to miss major changes that happen right in front of our eyes.
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This is called change blindness.
Your brain has to prioritize what it pays attention tootherwise, it will get overwhelmed.
If you’re busy concentrating on one thing, you have to tune out the rest.
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Your brain simply can’t process everything at the same time.
Your expectations also play a role.
Would you expect a person to suddenly transform into a completely different person while you were talking to them?
Probably not, so you may not recognize it when it happens because you werent expecting it to.
Drivers are also vulnerable to change blindness, which can lead to accidents.
Human memory is fragile, inaccurate, and susceptible to influence.
Interestingly, other studies have shown that it might be possible to reverse false memories, too.
Your brain likes patterns, and it especially likes faces.
A psychological phenomenon calledpareidoliaoccurs when your brain sees something familiar but its not there.
Research has shown that our brains are really sensitive to seeing faces.
But sometimes, that eagerness makes us see a face where there isnt one.
Some studies have suggested that highly creative people might be more likely to experience pareidolia.
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