Haha! Completely agree! I am a markets guy and I have at times lost a lot of money clinging to unrealistic expectations. I think we are unrealistically pessimistic about things that may not be so bad, and unrealistically optimistic about things that can have very unfavourable outcomes. This mismatch in expectations is what keeps in the never-ending pursuit of happiness.From an article:
Things generally take longer, cost more, and have a higher chance of going awry than we think they will, and there’s not much we can do about it. We should probably know better than to cling to our unrealistic expectations, but somehow we never learn. This persistent phenomenon (known as optimism bias) afflicts about 80 percent of humans, according to Tali Sharot, a neuroscientist at University College London.
It nicely fits 80% BS by CIC.