No one lives in reality, our brain creates distortions without our knowledge and without our consent

Confirmation bias is one of the strongest forces for shaping the way we think and creates some pretty huge distortions between what our brain thinks is reality and actual reality 

Our brain hides our biases from ourself. No reason to cook the books to make you feel good about yourself and then reveal you are cooking the books.

When two things are shown over and over together the brain creates a connection, if this has to do with groups of people it can become a stereotype 

We have a tendency to see people in our group as better than they are and people in groups we dislike as worse than they are. This causes all kinds of societal problems. 

Everyone knows there are two sides to every story. What is it that creates that and why can no one actually see reality as it is.