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“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.”
“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite...”
“Were programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. Its kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may...”
“We’re programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It’s kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it m...”