13 June 2015

• Magical thinking: Believing that one event happens as the result of another without a plausible link or causation.
• This way of not looking at the world is what developmental psychologists call "magical thinking," of which the best-known example is the child who covers her eyes and believes it makes her vanish from sight. (Mellisa A. Berman) 
• Smug: Contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority or correctness; complacent
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• Hard-nosed: Hardheaded or tough; unsentimentally practical
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