Listeners Instinctively Detect That When We Lower

What I've Learned, Above All, Is To Keep Marching Forward Because The Best News Is That Since Chance Does Play A Role, One Important Factor In Success Is Under Our Control: The Number Of At Bats, The Number Of Chances Taken, The Number Of Opportunities Seized.

When We Are In The Grasp Of Illusion - Or, For That Matter, Whenever We Have A New Idea - Instead Of Searching For Ways To Prove Our Ideas Wrong, We Usually Attempt To Prove Them Correct. Psychologists Call This The Confirmation Bias, And It Presents A Major Impediment Of Our Ability To Break Free From The Misinterpretation Of Randomness.

A Failure Doesn't Mean You Are Unworthy, Nor Does It Preclude Success On The Next Try.

Science Has Revealed A Universe That Is Vast, Ancient, Violent, Strange, And Beautiful, A Universe Of Almost Infinite Variety And Possibility One In Which Time Can End In A Black Hole, And Conscious Beings Can Evolve From A Soup Of Minerals.

Our Inner Weighing Of Evidence Is Not A Careful Mathematical Calculation Resulting In A Probabilistic Estimate Of Truth, But More Like A Whirlpool Blending Of The Objective And The Personal. The Result Is A Set Of Beliefs - Both Conscious And Unconscious - That Guide Us In Interpreting All The Events Of Our Lives.