1. By and large, humans are slaves to the moment. Our clearest memories betray a foggy relocation confirming our many biases. Our theoretical futures of magical perfection or condemned misery predominantly depend on our current mood and disposition. In a moment of exhilaration or despair, we make sweeping declarations and prognostications that we subsequently are left to defend for fear of feeling foolish or weak. Stand by your word! Doesn’t matter if one doesn’t really believe in that particular utterance. It is often better to cherry-pick evidence of one’s nonsense rather than simply say, “my bad” and move on to a new “moment”.