David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

vitals where the demon variously
dwelt, what did they think of these
best fruits of ten million hours of
dedicated toil? They hounded the
culprit from organ to organ and joint
to joint till nothing remained over
which to practice their art: the art of
prolonging sickness.
7 The prediction we make about how
we are going to feel in some future
situation is called “affective
forecasting,” and all of the evidence
suggests that we are terrible affective
forecasters. The psychologist Stanley J.
Rachman, for example, has done things
like take a group of people terrified of
snakes and then show them a snake. Or
take a group of claustrophobics and have