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Hi All, I work in digital marketing and have a pretty good understanding of human psychology in financial matters having now done this for over 15 years (god, that makes me feel old.).

I wanted to put a piece together to explain the dangers of confirmation bias based on how it's used on r/superstonk etc. but, the more I thought about it, and read through some of the comments (ok, loads of the comments) I became convinced that there are a lot of apes that appear to be experiencing a different type.

Does this sound familiar?

I have read all of the DD, put in all the money I have spare and I believe in the MOASS, but things like this don't happen to me (or people like me).

That's confirmation bias too, it's just the dark side.

Many (I'd venture to say, most) apes on this board don't come from money. They have no idea what it would feel like to suddenly walk in to ANY shop in their home town and be able to afford ANYTHING without asking the price. That's what we're all about to be up against.

That feeling of "things like this don't happen to me" or "that's not how life works out" is completely natural and has been beaten in to most of us for our entire lives.

Go to school, get a good job, sign-up to the retirement pension, you'll be able to relax when you're 70.

That's how we've been trained to think.

Here's why it's wrong.

• Every week, in all of the countries that my wonderful ape brethren come from, someone wins the lottery because they purchased the correct ticket.
• Every week, someone bets on a 1000/1 racehorse who comes in first, upsetting the bookies.
• Every day, someone invests in a stock that jumps 100% (10,000% in this case (min)).

These things do happen, and they happen to people like YOU. Believe me, I know how hard that can be to hear read, but it's true. You've chosen to be here, some of you have put it all on the line for this because you have read and (somewhat) understand what the Ape Gods of Rensole, Warde, Attobit and others have said. You put yourself in the path of the MOASS, the tendies and the Lambos and, because of that:

• you DESERVE to be here.
• you DESERVE the tendies that will follow
• you DESERVE the Lambo (or any other Italian luxury supercar)
• you DESERVE to have a great life

So (TLDR, I suppose), just because things like these don't ordinarily happen to people like you, or have ever happened to anyone you know, doesn't mean that you don't deserve it. Stand-up straight, put your shoulders back, walk forward with confidence. I love you all.

Peace.

Edit. Spelling, urgh.

Submitted April 29, 2021 at 06:21PM by TheThinkerist https://ift.tt/3e39Cr3