How Our Brain Believes the Future Will Be Based on Our Present

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People tend to believe that the future will be exactly like the present.
This phenomenon is called the 'end of history illusion.'
This tendency to underestimate future change is evident in people of all ages.
Even when things are going well or poorly, people believe that things will always be the same in the future.

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