Dude doesn't seem to have noticed the irony that he's describing how his choice to engage in wishful thinking and ignore what better informed people were presenting him evidence of resulted in him not appreciating what they were telling him about the phenomenon of people choosing to engage in wishful thinking and ignoring what better informed people present them evidence of.
True. But the oversight doesn't surprise me, alas. And I've seen people realize, "Oh, Ishould have taken ____ seriously when folks tried to warn me," then six months or a year later go back to, "But oh, it can't possibly be as bad as people are trying to tell me, that doesn't happen in real life," on some related topic.
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