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“Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.”

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Book:The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933

Source: The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933

“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

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Book:Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

Source: Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

“I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.”

Writing Past Hindsight

Author:Skylar Grey