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Julia Galef | The Benefits of Seeing the World as It Is

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

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Present Bias and the Immediately Rewarding Belief

Present bias affects not just how we behave and like what choices we make about how to spend our time, but how we think. Certain beliefs are much more immediately rewarding than other Beliefs that give us a motivation to try to defend those beliefs. Over the long term these decisions tend to undermine our goals which is why we put off going to the gym again and again and again.

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