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Quotes For When You Know You're Irrational, But Own It

There are two types of irrational people in the world: those who are completely oblivious to their lack of sense, and those who just plain own it.

Anyone who read that and thought, “Well, I’m never irrational,” welcome to Category #1. In fact, the pure belief that you are completely rational one hundred percent of the time is probably the first sign that your belief is flawed.

Acceptance is the first step, though, and once you’re there, I’m happy to welcome you to the party.

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I’m (mostly) kidding, but it really is freeing to just understand that a bit of irrationality is perfectly natural. In fact, it’s so normal that entire industries rely on predicting it.

Ever wonder why prices always end in 99 cents instead of rounding up?

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Because humans are irrational and experts in selling things know that we can’t help but subconsciously think that $20.00 is expensive, but $19.99 is a good deal. Most people don’t even see the cents. They just see 19 instead of 20, and their brain goes, “Awesome!”

Even if you *know* this, you still fall victim of it occasionally.

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On a good day, I’m able to ignore that the $3.00 item I’m buying is on sale and I could get two for $5.00. If I don’t need two, then only buying one saves me $2.00.

On a bad day, though, all bets are off, and my irrational brain takes over.

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Really, I should just skip shopping on those days and stay home where I may hold entire conversations with my dogs or house plants, but at least those irrational actions are free.

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