Our first impressions of someone can be hard to shift. Is it time to reassess some peeps you know?

1. The first time I saw
Andrew Lincoln, he
was playing Egg in
This Life in the late
1990’s.
I loved this show and
his character.

2. He popped up all
unrequited in
Love Actually

3. Then he’s
waking up to an
apocalypse, his
horse is eaten,
and he is forced
to fight Zombies
for an eternity
in The Walking
Dead.

4. But somehow, he is still
Egg.
And you are wondering,
“What’s Egg doing out
here with all these
Zombies?”

5. Or is that just me?

6. It’s like an
anchoring bias.
The tendency to give more weight
to the first thing put forward, and
adjust everything from that
anchoring point – even when it’s
irrelevant.

7. We do it with
numbers a lot.
The price of houses when you first
thought about buying one makes
today’s prices seem totes cray.
Who would pay that?

8. But we do it with
people too.
How they are, who they are, what
they do when we first meet them
gets a bit stuck.
It’s hard not to
see them as…

9. People are amazingly diverse over time.
Boyfriend, unhappy lawyer
turns café owner
Creepy stalker guy and not
very good best friend
Deputy Sherriff, survivalist,
zombie killer

10. Gayle
Smerdon
Anyone you know
need another look?