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The Unhappy Millionaire ICYMI

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Problem With Simulating the Future

This is a brand new faculty that is wired into the human brain. No other animal can do anything vaguely like it. In a sense, we have an ability you might call Prospection 1.0. It's still being worked on, so it's got bugs. We miss critical details of almost any good event we try to simulate. But let's look in more detail at the example we started with earlier, getting rich beyond our wildest dreams.

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