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Daniel asked this week: what have researchers and thinkers actually said about tempering expectations? The answer runs through an 18-year study of 1,600 people, a Yale psychologist's smartphone app, and the specific case of people moving to Israel sold on the Instagram version. The finding isn't "expect the worst" — it's that realists report the highest well-being, optimists and pessimists both do worse, and the skill worth building is accuracy, not pessimism. We also get into month four of an international move, why the word olah isn't a magic key, and Barry Schwartz's jeans. Episode #265130 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/265130