The Hell of High Expectations

You’re doing this to yourselves.

John Gorman
5 min readMar 28, 2019

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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…

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John Gorman

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