stackyFACTSThe positivity offset guarantees we expect the future to be significantly brighter than it realistically will be. This baseless expectation is the only reason humanity keeps dragging itself out of bed every morning.
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This is exactly why you make terrible choices. Scans show that when you think about yourself in ten years, the brain lights up as if you are pondering a…
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Planning fallacy is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate…
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