John Dinsmore

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186 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Hidden Brain · Making the Most of Your Mistakes · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

It just so happened that, you know, maybe I had to sell the house because I

I had a new job and I had to move to a new town.

And it just so happened that that coincided with a really great time to sell the house.

Right.

And also, you know, thinking of the house I sold in retrospect too early.

Well, I was renting it out.

The tenants were driving me crazy.

I was glad to be rid of it.

And then, you know, a year or two later, all of a sudden I thought, what an idiot I was, where at the time I made what was the right decision for me.

Well, one, I'm really sorry for Hannah because that is an incredible amount of money.

But I...

I don't think she necessarily made any mistake.

You know, you can't predict every possible outcome.

Like, I know there's people who ran into COVID, right, and ended up having trouble paying for houses that they bought and that sort of thing.

Well, I mean, who could have seen that coming?

That was, you know, the first pandemic in 100 years.

So, I mean, sometimes, again, we just get unlucky.

So expense prediction bias says that we actually are pretty good at being able to predict our regular expenses, right?

So things like our mortgage or our heating bill, they happen at the same time every month and typically for about the same amounts.

But we are pretty poor at predicting our irregular expenses.

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