2281: Long-Term Thinking by Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle on Cognitive Bias & Long Term Planning
Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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The Future Is Here
Humans seem to be the only creatures on earth cognitively capable of thinking about what might happen a year from now, or ten years, or ten thousand years. A focus on immediate threats and opportunities has obvious survival benefits. It's arguably more important to worry about the poisonous snake at your feet, rather than fixting on the problems your grandchildren's grandchildren's grandchildren might face some day in some vague, far off, not immediately applicable future. The power of recording information and thinking long term is that we can inoculate ourselves against some types of mistakes that we would otherwise make over and over again due to our default tendencies. Maintaining a sense of self place within broader swass of
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