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The 'optimist falacy'

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It is not that joshua was the kind of person who falls asleep during his daily commuten the opposite is more typical of him. But he had a rough month, and had real trouble sleeping at night as a reocurring dreams would wake him up at one forty four am and he was unable to get back to sleep. The two dreams were very different yet both would wake him sweatting, catching his breath and aching because they never had an end. A smell of old socks lingered in his nosetrills, and he would getb up, pee, stand a few minutes deliberating weather to go back to bed to try to read a book that will put him to sleep. After a few week of this he was so exhoused that he longed to go to bed the moment he eventually got off the bed when his blackberry bipped six twenty..

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It all started by accident one winter morning when Joshua Bernamov overslept and was more then three hours late to work, which meant he missed his much unticipated randewouz with Shilla Moskowitch in the supply closet. He stepped into what he thought was the Eight Forty Four to Downers Green, and almost immideatly fell asleep and ended up long minutes later in Belmont Grove with no cash to purchase the return ticket.

Direct Manipulation

I once observed an elderly woman trying to use a computer. We were in a public library and she was standing in front of the computer, lifted the mouse in the air, aimed at the screen and clicked it like a TV remote.
I am still shaken by this image, but over the year came to this of this as a positive example of how we try to transfer knowledge from a familiar domain to a new domain, when aparent clues suggest this can be useful.
The woman became furstrated and embarrased since she realized a few teens who were very entertained by her ignorance.