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#651 - Dr Mike Israetel - Can Money Actually Buy You Happiness?

Modern Wisdom

CHAPTER

The Pessimistic Fallacy

The pessimistic fallacy is a cognitive bias that the average person shares. Most people have it to some degree and their predictions for the future tend to be very pessimistically inclined. Almost everyone is insanely wrong about understanding how the world works, says Dr Mike Isritel. And you can get 15% off everything if you go to mud wtr dot com slash m w and use the code mw 15 at checkout.

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