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The Fundamental Attribution Error
We think about our future self as being a kind of Spock-like character, who's not going to have high highs or low lows. We don't understand the extent to which our future selves are really affected by the situation. And so we can very easily commit ourselves to things that we might even enjoy without taking into account the various ways that situations will conspire against us.