chumpier

Adjective

 * 1) * 2007, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by  me ): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (1st edition, Harcourt Books, ISBN 9780151010981, page 252, endnote 3:13:
 * Anne E. Wilson and Michael Ross have shown how the self-justifying biases of memory help us move psychologically, in their words, from “chump to champ.” We distance ourselves from our earlier “chumpier” incarnations if doing so allows us to feel better about how much we have grown, learned, and matured, but, like Haber, we feel close to earlier selves we thought were champs. Either way, we can’t lose.
 * 1) * 2007, Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (but not by  me ): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (1st edition, Harcourt Books, ISBN 9780151010981, page 252, endnote 3:13:
 * Anne E. Wilson and Michael Ross have shown how the self-justifying biases of memory help us move psychologically, in their words, from “chump to champ.” We distance ourselves from our earlier “chumpier” incarnations if doing so allows us to feel better about how much we have grown, learned, and matured, but, like Haber, we feel close to earlier selves we thought were champs. Either way, we can’t lose.
 * Anne E. Wilson and Michael Ross have shown how the self-justifying biases of memory help us move psychologically, in their words, from “chump to champ.” We distance ourselves from our earlier “chumpier” incarnations if doing so allows us to feel better about how much we have grown, learned, and matured, but, like Haber, we feel close to earlier selves we thought were champs. Either way, we can’t lose.