— Dan Ariely

We’re such good storytellers that we come up with stories that portray us in good ways, so we don’t always even see our own mistakes. And then on top of that, it’s about our social standing, and admitting failure also admits that we might be wrong in the future.” “We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. We’re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”