The Hell of High Expectations
You’re doing this to yourselves.
5 min readMar 28, 2019
Humans tell themselves three grand lies: memories, thoughts and expectations. Memories are a distortion of the past, thoughts are a distortion of the present, and expectations are a distortion of the future.
Why are they lies? Well, our memories are imperfect, our thoughts are poisoned by bias, and expectations are usually wrong…