The Optimism Bias — Don’t Let it Kill You

Steve Glaveski
7 min readMar 19, 2020

Optimisma mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that outcomes will be positive.

If it weren’t for optimism, many of our greatest achievements would not have come to fruition.

As Nietzsche said, us humans like to fool ourselves in order to orient towards the future.

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.