How come tied shoelaces love to untie, but clumsily packed away wires love to knot themselves?
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It’s a bit of confirmation bias. You don’t remember the 5,950 times your shoes stayed tied, because you tied em and went about your day, why focus on ur shoes? But the 50 times they’ve come loose, you noticed and focused on it and got peeved as you retied.
So your memory has 0 instances saved of you remembering your shoes stayed perfectly tied, and your memory has 50 instances of remembering your shoes came untied.
Your memory is betraying you, you are falling prey to that bias.
Same with wires. If you grab a wire from the pile and it comes out clean, you just plug it into whatever and continue your day without even thinking about it. No problems, no focus, no memory of it. If you pull the wire and it gets stuck and you get a little pissed off “fuck why can’t it just come free?!?” Now you have a problem, you are focusing on it, you form the memory.
It’s the same reason when you decide you really want the new Bronco, you start seeing them everywhere. And you think everyone has one… but around those 12 broncos you saw this week you also saw probably 500+ toyota camrys or honda accords. You don’t care about those, so they dont get noticed, and your biased brain makes biased memories and warps your reality
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