Tag: Superstition

  • Are we lucky, logical or biased?

    Are we lucky, logical or biased?

    It was interesting to watch the public preparations for the Chinese New Year celebration. It was easy for me to assume I understood it all, for much of what I could see as a foreigner looked the same as the Western preparations for Christmas and New Year holidays. I have held this cognitive bias for…

  • Go prepared, to the Superstition Wilderness

    Go prepared, to the Superstition Wilderness

    “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”   -Helen Keller As we headed out on the trail that day, I…