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Why Housing Prices Are So Expensive (EP.313)

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Your Brain Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

There was a story in the New York Times today called your brain is tricked you into thinking everything is worse. 73% rate their personal situation is good or excellent, but just 18 people say the same about the US as a whole. We look at the past more fondly and positive, we think about the positives of the past. But in the present, weThink about the negatives. And that means that's why we constantly think things are getting worse,. Even though they are definitely getting better for society as a whole."

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