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#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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How to Maximize Your Experienced Self

There is a tension between the hedonic properties of a vacation and the trade-off of not getting work done or not doing anything else. The fact that you can navigate that trade-off by actually making it shorter, and then the remembering self just simply doesn't care because it was good enough. I think there has to be a way of uniting these two selves in the sense that the remembering self really is just another instance of the experiencing self.

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