If ignorance is bliss, then optimism must be euphoria. Thanks to a mechanism called the optimism bias, humans are pretty much incapable of applying basic risk statistics to their own lives. We know smoking causes cancer, but we don’t expect it to happen to us. We find a lump on our body and we tell …Continue Reading
Perhaps you think that what you’ve experienced in the past – the positive and the negative – is intensively shaping your expectations of what will happen to you tomorrow, next week or 10 years from now. But actually, although life experiences can teach us all kinds of things, we don’t get that much better in …Continue Reading
