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> I don't know what the bias is called but there is this belief that many successful people have or try to bestow that they "did it all themselves" and "you can
by setrofim_ 9y ago
> I don't know what the bias is called but there is this belief that many successful people have or try to bestow that they "did it all themselves" and "you can too".
This is a combination of egocentric bias[0] and post-hoc rationalization [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentric_bias
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc