"Most people (ironically those deemed psychologically healthy) have an optimistic bias and generally assign too high odds of things working out well. The mildly depressed make more accurate assessments. I have often wondered which way the causality runs: do they make better assessments BECAUSE their unhappy state strips away the rose-colored filter, or are they mildly depressed because they keep giving more realistic assessments, which makes them a drag to be around, and they are depressed because they encounter social rejection?"
from Yves Smith (No reason to read the thing unless you are interested in finance and/or chaos theory.)
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