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What You Will Learn

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The Pitfalls of the Urgency Instinct

This chapter explores the concept of the urgency instinct, explaining how marketing and media create a misleading sense of immediate necessity. It emphasizes the importance of rational assessment over hasty decisions, highlighting the potential loss of credibility that can arise from exaggerated urgency.

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