Unfortunately for us, the remembering self makes all the planning decisions, charting all of our goals across its bizarre cognitive geography. We ignore process and focus on conclusion; we overestimate both negative and positive impacts of possible events; we hyperbolically discount like a fishmonger going out of business; and we make disconnected events fit into consistent life stories. We end up with bad goals that don’t make us happy while we’re achieving them and which give only fleeting satisfaction when we’re done. Almost all attempts to increase our happiness end in failure because we
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