Atomic Habits

* 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.