Appealing Fiction

The more you want something to be true, the more likely you are to believe a story that overestimates the odds of it being true. 

What was the happiest day of your life? 

The documentary How to Live Forever asks that innocent question to a centenarian who offered an amazing response. 

"Armistice Day, " she said, reffering to the 1918 agreement that ended World War I. 

"Why?" the producer asks. 

"Because we knew there would be no more wars ever again," she says. 

World War II began 21 years later, killing 75 million people. 

There are many things in life that we think are true because we desperately want them to be true. 

Quoted from The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.