Glibert In Immune To Reality

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Secondly, different kinds of experiences which can lead people have different sightseeing. People who have this experiences which the other people will not have. Individuals always find out some of specific part that they have not. This part may lead them to have a more collaborate thinking and thoughts. Glibert uses the company example in “In Immune to reality” to show that “Studies show that about nine out of ten people expect to feel more regret when they foolishly switch stocks than when they foolishly fail to switch stocks” (135). This shows that the switch behaviors seem really a bad choice which make people know that they cannot get any of the goods from that. As switching, they actually loose a lot of the opportunities and others

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