{"id":6514,"date":"2012-05-22T07:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2012-05-15T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:06:47","slug":"ted-talk-optimism-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/05\/22\/ted-talk-optimism-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: Optimism Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 17px;\">I tend to think things are going to be worse than they actually will be. That new restaurant will suck. Somehow I will manage to total my car on the trip I have taken 27 times in the past 5 years. I knew I failed every test I took in school until I get it back with an A or B. The script is going to spectacularly fail. Even if it successfully ran the last 9 times, <em><strong>THIS\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>time because I am the one hitting the button it will fail.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For me, success is a circumstantial accident over the failure that my skill would bring. You know&#8230; Luck is behind my success not my abilities. This video made me think about Thomas from this <a style=\"line-height: 17px;\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/Books\/story?id=8433586#.T7GEoUh45w8\">excerpt from NurtureShock<\/a>. (Another book I <strong style=\"line-height: 17px;\">really<\/strong> need to read.) Success being described as his\u00c2\u00a0innate\u00c2\u00a0intelligence made him fear failure as it would prove his deficiencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the below video does not work, then try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/tali_sharot_the_optimism_bias.html\">Tali Sharot: The optimism bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2012\/Blank\/TaliSharot_2012-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/TaliSharot_2012-embed.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1447&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=tali_sharot_the_optimism_bias;year=2012;theme=how_the_mind_works;event=TED2012;tag=brain;tag=culture;tag=neuroscience;tag=psychology;tag=science;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"pluginspace\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>P.S. I do not think I am depressed or depressive. I just have quasi-obsessive routines to ensure things work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to think things are going to be worse than they actually will be. That new restaurant will suck. Somehow I will manage to total my car on the trip I have taken 27 times in the past 5 years. 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