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In setting rules for how to behave in the future, you’re often in a calm, cool state, so you make unrealistic commitments.
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Once you’re committed to following a bright-line rule, your present self can feel confident that your future self will observe it, too.
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186 |
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…much of self-control is about integrating behavior over time – passing up immediate gratification for future benefits…
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212 |
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…monitoring lets you improve your long-term planning. If you keep records, you can periodically check how far you’ve come so that you can set more realistic goals in the future.
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256 |
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…if the other party feels the need to answer your generosity… They will suddenly come up on their offer, or they’ll look to repay your kindness in the future.
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…failures plant the seeds of future success…
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The future of technology is likely to illuminate the unsettling implications of how predictable we are…
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11 |
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…making high earners feel better in just about every part of their lives will be a major source of job growth in the future.
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23 |
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Immigration is vital to the future economic vitality of the United States.
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…there is no guarantee that future advances will move us back to a simpler conceptual world, and if anything the likelihood seems to point in the opposite direction.
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