Chuck Bryan

And not only do they get to live to reproduce and pass on that optimism bias, it's reinforced because they were successful and they think all the more now I can successfully predict my future and I'll be successful in that future.

Yeah, for sure.

And I mentioned the caveat about the Western societies being the most studied.

A lot of these are definitely slanted toward the American way of life or the Western way of life and thought.

They're really not super sure about sort of worldwide.

There is some evidence that

Um, like in Japan, uh, that like they might not anticipate positive outcomes as much for their own selves, like we do here in the United States.

Um, but they also make the point like, well, we're also, you know, all of these things are people self reporting.

So.

In places like the United States or Australia, they may just be more likely to say out loud that they're optimistic.

Whereas in another country, they may feel that way, but just, you know, no whammies kind of style.

Or maybe they just are not as outwardly optimistic, but they really feel it.

They just don't want to say it.

Yeah.

It's not cool to be optimistic in those countries.

Yeah.

You want to take a break and then come back and talk about some variations on this theme?

Let's do it.

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