Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. - Daniel Kahneman

He's taking an inside view. He should forget about his own case and look for what happened in other cases.

For example, students of policy have noted that the availability heuristic
helps explain why some issues are highly salient in the public’s mind while
others are neglected. People tend to assess the relative importance of
issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory — and this is
largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media

the proper way to elicit information from a group is not by starting with a public discussion but by confidentially collecting each person’s judgment. This procedure makes better use of the knowledge available to members of the group than the common practice of open discussion.