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Why We Are So Often Wrong & How to Dial Down Anxiety

Something You Should Know

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Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

We have an in-built sense that things are getting worse, including our own happiness and other people's happiness. The media know that we're naturally programmed to be interested in vivid, unusual, negative stories. And they get instant feedback now on what's popular and what's not. So it's built into the system for them to play to our biases. It's a system of delusion.

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