The Unbroken Chain: A Theory of Time Discounting

There's something called the unbroken chain, which Jerry Seinfeld used to do. You write to every single day that there's people who do running. They have like 30 years of exes on their calendar every day. Even if they had a fever, they said, well, I got to run around the block or I leave my chain. But people don't do this. People don't do the pre-commitment. No, no. It's because they can somehow sense that they're trapping themselves in the corner and there will be no escape. And so... Or they say, they'll tell somebody who they know will forgive them,. Like their boyfriend, a girlfriend, right