Psychologists say we usually underestimate efforts needed to achieve long term goals.
It happens since our vision of future self just extrapolates our present self.
And this significantly undermines our ability to clearly define our future self.
This in turn leads to under-assessing the efforts accordingly needed a few years later.
What if thereโs a better workaround to get this right?
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