the.com/desperation
The cologne everyone can smell except the person wearing it.
means A state of such urgent distress or hopelessness that you'll grab at any option, however bad.
from From Latin desperare, 'to be without hope' — de- (away from) plus sperare (to hope, related to spes, 'hope'). The same root gives us 'despair,' its emotional twin. Desperation is despair caught in the act of doing something about itself.
- texting pattern
- triple texts before they've even read the first
- negotiation effect
- makes you accept worse deals than doing nothing
- root cause
- usually scarcity you invented, not scarcity that's real
- cruel irony
- the fix is acting like you don't need the fix