Andrew Huberman· PhD
You do something rotten to somebody, and how do you explain it afterward? A situational one. I was tired, I was stressed in this sort of setting, I misunderstood this.
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You do something rotten to somebody, and how do you explain it afterward? A situational one. I was tired, I was stressed in this sort of setting, I misunderstood this.
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We're best at excusing ourselves from bad things because we have access to our inner lives and we've got prefrontal cortexes that are great at coming up with a situational explanation rather than, hey, maybe you're just like a selfish rotten human, you need to change.