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Extrapolation

Projecting the way things are now onto the future. Wiest describes it as a trap in which temporary trouble feels permanent.

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, Brianna Wiest

Explained in

• The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, Brianna Wiest
• Factfulness, Hans Rosling

  extending the current line of a graph into the future as if it were bound to keep going straight

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