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 โwhy do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,โ 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? Itโs alright if you canโt because apparently I fuckin couldnโt either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you donโt 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 letโs 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 โthereโs gonna come a time, probably when youโre a teenager, where youโre gonna think, โI feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I havenโt needed it in years.โ and youโre gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess whatโs gonna happen then? Youโre gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and youโre gonna be dying again, and weโre gonna have to find you another liver. So donโt do that.โ And I said โwhy the fuck would anyone do that?โ and he said โpeople are stupid.โ
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or donโt wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think โugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?โ 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 peopleโs lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.
