You think really bad things are more likely to happen to other people. Optimism bias protects your sensibilities by convincing your mind nothing bad will happen to you. Simply believing something is true does not make it so. Once you see the problems clearly you can’t unsee them. You are more at risk than your mind is willing to accept. Those in control of their own life will take back their power and 🆘🇺🇸 #TikTokEncyclopediaContest #creatorsearchinsights
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One thing you hear me say all the time is that Americans are doing a lot of mental gymnastics and Maybe you don't know what it is that I mean by that. I Use that term because so many Americans are putting a huge gap between reality and themselves and I call it mental gymnastics But it's actually called optimism bias Optimism bias is your belief that bad things are more likely to happen to other people than to you You are somehow safer. You're covered. You're insulated from all of the problems that are happening in the United States Because you're doing mental gymnastics. There was a time in my life where I was doing a lot of mental gymnastics And I didn't even realize I was doing it It was on a work trip one time and I was eating out at an Italian restaurant near the hotel and there was a shooting of an Actual murder right outside the front door of this restaurant that I was eating at with a group of co-workers and The restaurant had to scuttle us out the back door and I thought to myself It wasn't me right because it wasn't me and so there was that protection there But then later there was a mass shooting at a local mall and my aunt was working that Day and I thought to myself I'm so glad that she's safe and that my family is protected But it just as easily could have been her But I had somehow put a block like it couldn't have been her and so that next Halloween I took my kids to trick-or-treat at that mall Just without a thought in my mind that there had been a mass shooting at that mall and Then fast forward and I started to realize that I was doing this that there were shootings in all of these places that I Frequented and all of a sudden the light bulb hit and I left I had been insulating myself and pretending and practicing this optimism bias Like I was somehow Above getting shot at all of these places that I go the fact of the matter is Parents every day are sending their kids to school in the United States Knowing that school shootings happen on a regular basis. If you don't know me yet I'm Veronica and I help Americans who are done Playing those games in their mind and who are ready to break free of the chaos and leave the United States If you're ready to do that go to the link in my bio and join my 2026 global life accelerator where I will walk you through every step to get you out of the United States and living abroad in 2026
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