Moment 100 - A Neuroscientist Explains The Surprising Way To Be Happy TODAY!: Tali Sharot

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What is the optimism bias? This is overestimating the good things that will happen in your future, despite all the evidence that may go against it. This is a systematic mistake that we all make as we always expect the future to be better than it ends up being and we underestimate the negatives that could happen. However, in this moment Dr. Tali Sharot discusses how the optimism bias can be a positive as our expectations of future happiness affect our happiness right now, it can motivate you to try harder to make this a reality. As Dr. Sharot says, “what we believe in our mind, changes the way we behave and the way we behave in the world changes the world”. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/PVr36vSM2xb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

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0:00.0	The optimism bias from what I understood is that is that bias to believing that the future
0:08.6	will be good?
0:10.3	Is that accurate or is that an accurate?
0:12.2	Yeah, kind of.
0:13.2	So optimism on its own means...
0:15.2	You're really leaving them wrong.
0:16.2	No, you're not wrong.
0:17.2	I think what you mean is right.
0:19.2	Thank you.
0:20.2	I'll just give you the scientific definition.
0:22.2	So optimism is believing that positive things will happen.
0:27.5	The optimism bias means that you believe these optimistic things, these good things will
0:34.7	happen, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
0:38.4	So it's actually a mistake, right?
0:40.3	The optimism bias.
0:41.5	So usually we define it as overestimating the likelihood of positive events happening.
0:46.8	So you're overestimating how much money am I going to get with my first job when I leave
0:52.1	a graduate school, right, or overestimating how long my marriage will last, and so on.
0:57.6	So overestimating the positive in light of the evidence that is in front of us and
1:03.6	underestimating the likelihood of negative events happening.
1:07.5	So underestimating might be getting COVID, getting cancer, being in a car accident, going
1:12.2	bankrupt, whatever it is, based on whatever evidence is there.
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