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What if I were to tell you from a historical perspective things are better now than they have ever been in the history of the world?My guess is you may think I am either drunk or delusional. I get it. We are bombarded every single day with negative news. Plus, there are always bad things happening we need to improve upon, and to deny that fact would be delusional.Couple the negative news with the natural human instinct to mitigate risk by drifting towards negative bias, and we have a perfect concoction for being over-dramatic and fearful of the future. It is so bad some people have REM's 90s hit "It's the End of the World As We Know It," on a playback loop in their brain all day long.This podcast does two things: (1) discuss the amazing accomplishments of humanity over the past 150 years, and (2) discuss key instinct biases, driven by the scandalous and shameful news media, that cloud our judgment to create fear and pessimism on about everything. There are many things to worry about; yet, we shouldn't let ourselves fall into that ugly trap of fear, anger, loathing, and negativity to the point we lose the ability to think clearly and effectively address real problems.
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