The Science Of Your Stupid First-World Problems
A psychological phenomenon explains why we are so terrible at seeing how good we have it
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5 min readJun 29, 2021
I was recently on one of my favorite radio shows of all time, NPR’s RadioWest, talking about my new book, The Comfort Crisis. The show’s host, Doug Fabrizio, started the interview by asking me to tell a story about two Harvard…