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balance, to believe we will stay healthy, but get medical insurance anyway; to be certain the sun will shine, but grab an umbrella on our way out — just in case.
Adapted from The Optimism Bias, by Tali Sharot. Copyright © 2011 Tali Sharot. Reprinted with permission of Pantheon Books, a division
of Random House Inc. All rights reserved
Sharot is a research fellow at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
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