The optimism bias

TED Talks on Instagram: "When you read a book, you can likely visualize what’s happening on the page — but for people like Alex Rosenthal, editorial director of @tededucation and TED Games, no pictures come to mind at all. In his TED Talk, he describes what it’s like to live with aphantasia, the inability to conjure mental images, while working in a visual field. He explains how, despite not having a mind’s eye, embracing different ways of processing the world can lead to incredible things — lik