I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought βwhy do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,β so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? Itβs alright if you canβt because apparently I fuckin couldnβt either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you donβt need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like letβs say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said βthereβs gonna come a time, probably when youβre a teenager, where youβre gonna think, βI feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I havenβt needed it in years.β and youβre gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess whatβs gonna happen then? Youβre gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and youβre gonna be dying again, and weβre gonna have to find you another liver. So donβt do that.β And I said βwhy the fuck would anyone do that?β and he said βpeople are stupid.β
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or donβt wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think βugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?β and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)
Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make peopleβs lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.
