In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures. - Daniel Kahneman

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality — but it is not what people and organizations want. Extreme uncertainty is paralyzing under dangerous circumstances, and the admission that one is merely guessing is especially unacceptable when the stakes are high. Acting on pretended knowledge is often the preferred solution.

As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.