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The '''[https://nincompoop.life/ Nincompoop Philosophy]''' is a psychological lens on human behaviour that assumes people — including you, me, and the person loudly denying it — are riddled with mental shortcuts, biases, and self-deceptions. It isn’t about mocking stupidity from a distance; it’s about recognising that stupidity is baked into all of us. The name “Nincompoop” is intentional — disarming, a little absurd, and a reminder not to take ourselves too seriously while we dissect the absurdity of the human mind.

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At its core, it’s built on well-established psychological mechanisms: confirmation bias, heuristic shortcuts, tribalism, projection, cognitive dissonance, naïve realism, motivated reasoning, and more. These aren’t rare flaws — they’re the default operating system. Most people don’t realise they’re running on them, because the mind is wired to protect comfort over truth. That’s why someone can cling to a bad idea for decades and call it “being consistent,” or reject uncomfortable facts because they “just don’t feel right.”

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The Nincompoop lens strips away polite pretence and looks at how people actually think, decide, and behave — without the self-flattering filters. It’s often funny, sometimes uncomfortable, and always pointed, because the humour works as a Trojan horse for uncomfortable truths. The philosophy doesn’t ask people to be perfect thinkers — it asks them to notice when their mental autopilot is flying them straight into nonsense.

In short, the Nincompoop Philosophy is equal parts '''psychological realism''' and '''satirical honesty''': a way of seeing the world that accepts human irrationality as a given, laughs at it, and still insists on doing better — or at least knowing when you’re being an idiot on purpose.{{wiktionary redirect}}

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