To the editor: In 2011, neuroscientist Tali Sharot published her book, "The Optimism Bias," in which she pointed out that 80% of the people in her study showed a bias toward being optimistic.

But according to neuroscientist Tali Sharot, the author of Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There, these daily patterns are a major contributor to the sense of ennui and ...