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Impact bias, things are never as good (or bad) as we imagine...

In august last year I read a post by @Syattfitness that caused a deep impact on my way of thinking and changed me for the better, by helping me remember I can always take the emotional component of any decision with a grain of salt.  Jordan Syatt is a fitness expert I deeply respect, I follow his content across platforms on a dialy basis and when he posted this on facebook  (https://www.facebook.com/220897687966326/posts/3438045356251527/)  He mentioned the term impact bias which I was completely unfamiliar with, so I decided to look more into it.  Impact bias is the tendency we all have to overestimate the lenght and intensity that future emotional states and events will have in our lives.    We try to predict how an event will play out and how it'll make us feel, to make decisions, however when making this predictions we are subject to biases we don't take into consideration thinking we know for sure how something will make us feel in the future.  (You know the &q