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Why We're Mean to Our Future Selves (LIVE from Boston)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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How to Use Language to Get Perspective on Your Future Self

This is one that I definitely going to use because I really fall play to talking about my future self in the third person. But you've also argued that one of the things we need to do to make sure we're making good decisions, even when we use these other techniques, is to know what our current preferences are. Because this is another way we go wrong. We simulate it. Or our future self would like X, Y, and Z because I like X,Y, and Z. But we don't right now even actually like X,. Y, andZ Right.

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