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#516 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 16 Surprising Psychology Truths
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Difference Between the Past and the Future?
If you can't decide between two choices, take the path that's more difficult or painful in the short term. Doing this will counteract the hyperbolic discounting the brain's tendency to overestimate short term pain and underestimate long term pain. We tend to overestimate problems and rewards in the present. You'll always underestimate the things that are going to be happening further out in the future than you will about what is happening closer to the present. So therefore, always take this into account when you're making decisions - because your brain is very good at making you believe that the only thing that matters is the present.
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