Why Last Week Rules Your Brain: Recency Bias and Fear | The Risk Illusion
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Why can one frightening event from last week suddenly make something that was safe yesterday feel dangerous today?
In Why Last Week Rules Your Brain, Episode 2 of The Risk Illusion, TJ Walker explains how recency bias and the availability heuristic distort our perception of danger.
A highly publicized shark attack can make an entire coastline feel threatening even though the underlying probability has barely changed. Meanwhile, much larger everyday risks receive almost no attention.
You'll learn why your memory acts more like a highlight reel than a statistical database, how vivid and recent events become mentally exaggerated, and the question you can ask whenever a new fear suddenly appears.
Before allowing fear to influence your behavior, ask what recent story, headline, social media post, or personal experience placed it on your radar.
Why Last Week Rules Your Brain is an episode of The Risk Illusion, part of the Ultamize Personal Development Podcast Network.
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