Saturday, October 25, 2008
Human Psyche To Believe In Illogical Things
Its sometime funny and irritating to read people's comments on the financial portals (or should I say finance advertising portals, they are more or less the same. Isn't it!!) like moneycontrol or paisacontrol. I remember one of the comment on moneycontrol in which a guy was urging people to buy a company share suggesting that it'll boost by 20% the next day. How the heck can somebody say that! As if his father owns the company and tomorrow they are going to wake up and put some million dollars into market by buying their own shares. Bull shit!! The problem is that most of the people get influenced by these sorts of comments. It is something like some of your friends asks you for a smoke and you succumb to it even when you decided not to smoke. Take another example, Sometimes we just tease a friend with a girl name, taunting him about the imaginary relation between him and the girl and in most of the cases find the guy developing a feeling for the girl. What I am trying to say here is that sometimes we just start believing in illogical things just because they have been said repeatedly by multiple people. As it is in most of the cases, it hurts us big time. We should be really careful while giving and taking advice from people. By the way that share dropped by 20% the next day....
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Another example is those thousands to pathetic emails which people keep on forwarding just becoz it says fwd it 10 X no. of people else you will have i'll luck. And sometimes false claim that someone in need will get X cents per email. People just fwd it without thinking. Do u remember ICICI fake site's email... I have had it confirmed with ICICI that the site mentioned in the email was not fake, but people kept on sending the same mail.
ReplyDeleteI'll write in details in some blog. :)
BTW i also dint know that u've started blogging.. welcome to new addiction :)
ReplyDeleteVery true kunal..perhaps the example of smoking was not that applicable to the context..it has more to do with temptation..nothing illogical in that..I quote that example thinking about the stock market players and temptation is a big feature of those people:)
ReplyDeletethe other examples are more suitable I think..
Hey that is so true .I liked the moral of your article which is actually true.BTW thanks a ton for teaching me something new like this..
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