What you expect to happen in the future will steer your decisions. It will determine if you will pursue a goal or when you will give up. Your expectations will also affect your emotions. You will feel good if your future looks like it will match your expectations, and you will feel bad if the future looks gloomy.
But our optimistic expectations about the future are often wrong and are often consistently wrong.
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