Long Term Thinking Is Critical to Human Success

Long term thinking is hard at a really basic level because we're human beings. And for any rational human if you have a choice between something now and some at an indeterminate point in the future where it might not actually happen, you would want the thing now. That only makes sense. But the challenge, of course, is that for many of the things in our modern society that we want, there is no way, there us literally no way, that it will happen immediately. So we have to be long term thinkers if we want to achieve those things.