Chuck Bryan

And that's what I was talking about.

People tend to think that good things are likely to happen for them.

Even in knowing that statistically speaking, overall, it's very unlikely to happen to just anybody, but they're not just anybody.

This is the optimism bias that's been turned up and reinforced year after year, every year.

It's an annual thing.

Well, and speaking of reinforced, it seems that optimism reinforces optimism.

If you when they've studied this, that positive life events just tend to make you even more optimistic, which makes a lot of sense.

But if you have something negative that happens, it doesn't generally all of a sudden make you more pessimistic.

It's just like, well, that happened.

Yeah.

Some other examples are when you expect things to be easy for you.

A lot of people do that.

I understand that one, too.

That can be bad.

And that you'll be more successful than you would.

I mean, again, just statistically speaking.

And then also that we spend a lot more time thinking about good things that are coming down the pike than bad ones, which I also can associate with.

I mean, it just seems unusual for the average person to sit around and be like, well, I'm probably going to get a flat tire in the next like year and a half, statistically speaking.

I should probably think about that for a little while.

Yeah.