* This can derail our decision making as well. The brain
overestimates the danger of anything that seems like an
immediate threat but has almost no likelihood of actually
occurring: your plane crashing during a bit of turbulence, a
burglar breaking in while you’re home alone, a terrorist
blowing up the bus you’re on. Meanwhile, it underestimates
what appears to be a distant threat but is actually very likely:
the steady accumulation of fat from eating unhealthy food,
the gradual decay of your muscles from sitting at a desk, the
slow creep of clutter when you fail to tidy up.
