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Is Your Past and Future Selves a Strategy for Happiness?
Timothy Stanley: I recently have been a huge fan of zooming out on the timeline and thinking, all right, you're in this position now, but is it setting you up for success later? And if you zoom out, you tend to find that a lot of the things that you're doing are going to end up just fine later on down the line or so we hope. He recommends using our past and future selves, essentially, to pull ourselves out of the moment to mitigate the emotional impact of a decision. It helps us avoid making emotion based decisions that might be bad for us. There's so much in thinking in bets.