How biased are our senses?

I have listened to cognitive psychology professor Donald Hoffman quite a bit. He has given many lectures and talks on how our senses and neurological system may be presenting us with a biased version of reality. It is interesting to think about how far off we potentially could be, given how little we currently know […]

Achieving happiness through low expectations

Today, when I was visiting potential apartments to move into in Barcelona, I thought about which one I should choose and tried to figure out what properties of an apartment are valuable over time, and what gimmicks will do I overestimate the value of and normalize quickly. The extended thought is whether it is possible […]