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The tendency to attribute successes to internal factors and failures to external factors. Your ego's personal PR department.
Prevents learning from failures and creates unrealistic self-assessments in everything from dating to business.
This bias is so strong that even when people are told about it, they still think it doesn't apply to them.
"Fun fact: You just fell for a bias discovered by psychologists who were probably biased themselves."