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* is can derail our decision making as well. e brain overestimates the
danger of anything that seems like an immediate threat but has almost no
likelihood of actually occurring: your plane crashing during a bit of
turbulence, a burglar breaking in while you’re home alone, a ter rorist
blowing up the bus you’re on. Meanwhile, it underestimates what appears to
be a distant threat but is actually ver y likely : the steady accumulation of fat
from eating unhealthy food, the gradual decay of your muscles from sitting
at a desk, the slow creep of clutter when you fail to tidy up.
