Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

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Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

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PoliticsEnglish · 3 years ago

Opinion | Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse

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Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.

The “good old days” are a trick of the mind.

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