by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

As far back as I can remember, I have always been one of those annoyingly cheerful early morning people who bounce out of bed most mornings, raring to go.  And so when  I first heard the term “optimism bias”, my immediate reaction was:”That’s me!”  But there’s apparently far more to optimism bias than bouncing cheerfully out of bed.  (And my own mornings are admittedly less bouncy lately, given that I’m approaching Round 3 of chemotherapy for breast cancer, including a whack of side effects that have often felt like being run over by a large bus).
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