A closer look
Hindsight bias is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were. After a stock market crash or a surprise sports upset, everyone instantly becomes a genius who claims they saw it coming from a mile away. Our brains rewrite our own memories of not knowing something to make us feel smarter and more in control of a chaotic world. You literally gaslight yourself into believing you are a modern-day oracle, completely ignoring the fact that you spent yesterday hopelessly lost in a grocery store parking lot looking for your own car
