• coolkicks@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    We also have a chronic disposition toward optimism. You know “the American dream” and all that.

    So a disease with a 10% mortality rate has a 90% survival rate. And 90% is bigger than 50%, so when you factor in chronic optimism it’s basically a 100% survival rate in our brains.