Over the past year, there’s one conversation I feel like I’ve had almost every week. The world is getting crazy. AI is going to take everyone’s jobs. People don’t want to work anymore. Everything is expensive. Politicians are evil. All in the same conversation. And the conclusion is always the same: Life was better 10 years ago. Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn’t. But here’s what I know for certain. Spending your mental energy on that question is one of the most expensive things you can do. That’s what this article is about. Not whether life is actually worse. But why do we think it is, and what to do about it? Your brain is lying to you Before you accept the story that everything is getting worse, consider the following. The human mind is not a reliable narrator of history. A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking. A mental shortcut that distorts how we see reality. We all have them. They’re not a sign of weakness or stupidity. They’re just how brains work. The problem is that…
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