Viktor Marchev
1 min readAug 7, 2020

Pragati, recently I read a book by Malcom Gladwell named “David and Goliath.” There he spoke about a thing called “affective forecasting.” That’s the humans' ability, or more maybe inability, to predict the future and future events. In basic terms, our forecasts of it, never meet reality. I suggest you read some of his examples, they’re awesome.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s a waste of time to constantly predict what is going to happen in the future. Live only for the 24h ahead of you.

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Viktor Marchev
Viktor Marchev

Written by Viktor Marchev

I read my own stories out loud. Interested in everything related to psychedelics, mental health, and spirituality. Writer for ILLUMINATION.

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Live only for the 24h ahead of you.

Thank you so much for your time, I really apprecaite your attention and your kind words. I would love to read that book and that too coming from such a great author!
Yeah that is what I am trying to say, why keep forcasting ahead and wasting so much…

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