Hey podcast listeners, in this season of gratitude, we are bringing to you today an episode

about gratitude. It's called Why Is My Life So Hard. We first released it last March,

and it quickly became one of our most popular episodes. Also, I wanted to let you know

about a new project you might be interested in. A while back, we put out an episode called

How To Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future. It was about the research psychologist

Philip Tetlock and his long-standing quest to turn the guesswork of prediction into science.

He set up a massive forecasting tournament about geopolitics to try to learn what it

takes to be a super-forkaster. Well, Tetlock is now running a new forecasting tournament

also about geopolitics, and he is looking for volunteers. But in this one, the humans

get some help in the form of artificial intelligence. It's called the hybrid forecasting competition.

Phil Tetlock knows that Freakonomics Radio listeners are smart and curious, so he asked

us to announce this call out for volunteers. You can sign up at hybridforecasting.com. Good

luck. Basically, what we're trying to answer is, why do people think that life is so hard

for them? We wanted to try to get a handle on how or why it's so easy for people to feel

put upon, to feel resentful, to feel that life has made things harder for them, that it

has for other people. That's Tom Gillovich. I'm a professor of psychology at Cornell University,

and I've studied how people make judgments and decisions in their everyday and professional

lives. And Shai Davidi. Or in Hebrew Shai Davidi,

and I'm an assistant professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research.

Gillovich and Davidi recently published a paper called The Headwinds Tailwinds a Symmetry.

In addition to being a clever piece of experimental research, it has the amazing capacity to make

you feel both much better about your life and much worse. It explains why you think your

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