Counterfactuals Can Trap Us in a Bad Way of Thinking

Counterfactuals can trap us in a bad way of thinking, but counterfactuals might also be our escape route. Psychologists call the availability heuristic, which basically means that we are biased towards the stuff that's easiest to remember. If you open your mind to that, it's much easier to see, well, maybe it wasn't such a bad podcast because it could have been a hell of a lot worse.