#42 Private Moment - James Smith on pessimism bias
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Peter Cowley
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
HAPPY NEW YEAR Private Parters! Welcome back to the podcast where nothing is off limits.
It's a new year and a new day and we are BACK with a Private Moment to kickstart your year! These are where we go back into our archives to find little snippets from previous episodes for you all to enjoy.
Today, we journey back to when Jamie & Alex were joined by lifestyle and fitness coach and author, James Smith.
In this clip, James discusses with the boys the idea of pessimism bias, eternal optimism and the psychological pain of losing something once you have had it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to another episode of our private moments. |
| 0:06.4 | It's now Sean and Sweet episodes where we round up all of our favorite guests and |
| 0:09.8 | all of our favorite moments and different things. |
| 0:11.8 | This is a little private moment for you. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:17.0 | People like to paint a picture themselves of how someone created something. That's why there's a lot of |
| 0:26.0 | kind of hatred towards wealthy people. It's quite strange because people admire billionaires but they hate millionaires. So this is |
| 0:30.7 | it's really odd I feel like we are kind of bred into a like self-doubt and I only realized I had that within myself and is this realization I had recently I was like I've had this voice that was always going nah You can't do that you can't do that and I was |
| 0:44.8 | like where does that actually come from like where's that voice been like bread I'd leave behind |
| 0:49.7 | you old yes if you're a fucking Percy. Stop doing it, dude. |
| 0:55.0 | King Wanker. |
| 0:56.0 | I have a theory. It's called a pessimism bias where we always favour a pessimistic outcome. |
| 1:01.0 | Similar to, if I get a pain in my side I think I'm dying I'm |
| 1:04.3 | I'm not enjoying it I want to get a fucking notepad this is fucking this is |
| 1:08.3 | sweet-ass shit over here I like this is great I'd be confident if I get like a pain in my side, I think I'm dying, if my phone rings, I'm like, |
| 1:16.2 | fuck who died? |
| 1:17.2 | You know, like, it's pessimistic outcome all the time. |
| 1:19.4 | From an evolutionary standpoint through hundreds of thousands of years, the optimists probably didn't do too well. |
| 1:24.4 | You know, two guys 15,000 years ago, oh, Sabretooth Tiger, here's lunch guys. |
| 1:30.3 | Then suddenly they're out the jean ball or they look at like a long like a |
| 1:34.0 | I don't know bit of water between night I can't fancy a swim can we make that? |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, of course we can. The optimist probably were more likely to die or should we jump this gap? |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah fine. Where the pessimists, the people that |
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