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-1 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 23 November 2015 01:47AM

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Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 24 November 2015 09:49:33PM 1 point [-]

Very much agreed. As I say in the op-ed:

Recent research shows that after any emotionally powerful event, in politics or private life, our brains tend to assign too much weight to that event, compared with what is really important to us. This thinking error is called attentional bias. To fight this thinking error, we should consider what are our actual long-term goals and how to achieve them in the best possible manner.