Ever notice how your first superstition came from something an adult casually said — and your brain just signed the contract in crayon? That’s how most of these things start. Our minds are pattern machines wired for survival, not accuracy. Early on, a coincidence gets mistaken for cause: You step on a crack, your mom twists her ankle, and boom—your brain adds ‘avoid cracks’ to its emergency survival handbook. The fancy term is associative learning. It’s the same way pigeons learn to peck a button for food… only we add mythological backstory and matching socks for good luck. Asia’s ancient superstitions are textbook cases — whole cultures ritualizing those first random coincidences until they calcified into cosmic rules.”\ Join the rest of us DORKS to explore why you give credence to superstitions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.