Why Smart People Are So Easily Fooled
5 min readJul 23, 2022
When I lived in Moscow, my gym was just a five-minute walk from my flat. So rather than use a locker, I would just run over in my shorts and a jacket no matter what the weather was. The locals thought I was crazy. Elderly Russians would sometimes scream at me to go home and get dressed properly.
I had always heard that Russians were impervious to the effects of weather, but the truth is that they…