Many smokers like to associate themselves to the late George Burns, a famous actor who smoked cigars continuously for many years and lived to be nearly a hundred, as evidence that smoking is relatively harmless. These individuals tend to ignore the thousands of people who die every year from lung cancer. They are illustrating

confirmation bias

Explanation:

confirmation bias is the physiological tendency of an individual to look for information, facts and proofs which reinforces his prior belief. In confirmation bias there is selective information collection while ignoring or not paying attention to information which do not corroborate to their beliefs. Confirmation bias is generally seen in emotional driven beliefs and thoughts.

Here also smokers are citing example of famous personality to validate they’re though that smoking is harmless while ignoring other negative facts hence it is illustration of conformation bias.

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).