The Two Types of Thinking and the Optimism Bias in Planning

There are two types of thinking, an inside approach and an outside approach, with the inside approach often leading to idealized and oversimplified mental simulations/nMental simulations often fail to consider alternative ways things may go/nPeople tend to become locked into one scenario in the inside approach/nWhen planning, people generally plan to succeed rather than fail/nThe optimism bias is a tendency to see the future in rosy terms/nTally Sherritt is a cognitive neuroscientist