How one small detail can ruin the whole experience

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The focusing illusion ruins our ability to evaluate experiences accurately. Your brain fixates entirely on one distinct aspect of an event, allowing a single scratchy hotel towel to retroactively ruin your perception of a luxury tropical vacation.

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