The Importance of Seeing the World as It Really Is

My PhD is on optimism bias so one of the things that makes optimism bias so interesting is that nearly all the other biases we have lead to negative outcomes. People with optimism bias live longer they have better relationships, earn more money and end up having a better outcome than people who don't see world this way. If you estimate your risk of cancer to be 30% and then they say no it's actually 50% you may only update it to 33%. So when it's bad information you're less likely to update than if it's good information but overall okay even if you end up getting to forced at the end the things that happened along the way that were good lead to this better these better