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People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.

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  1. Henrik Karlsson

    Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland

    It is common to think that what we do achieves what we want it to achieve, even if there is no evidence for it.

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