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Mistakes in predicting our future feelings
We are not very good at guessing how we'll feel in the future. In predicting how we will feel in the future, we commonly use the past experience as a guide.
But our brain favours the extreme and most recent events. We tend to focus on the main features of an event and less on the journey to get there. This means that we won't always make the best decisions about our lives.
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How we can make good decision
- When we have a decision to make, it is recommended to solicit the views of people who have had the experience you're considering.
- We can also ask the opinions of those around us since people tend to take a longer-term view when thinking about other people's choices.
- The k...
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Overestimating our future emotions
We overestimate the strength of our emotions in the future.
Studies show that people overestimated their happiness at winning and their disappointment at losing because they forgot all the other things that would happen in a day that would influence their mood.
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Feelings are not long-lasting
A lottery winner, for instance, won't spend every day celebrating their win. Nor will someone with a disabling accident spend all their time in shock.
When imagining either situation, we like to think that the feelings will be long-lasting. We forget that we will adapt and that the...
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- Impact Bias: Your tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of future emotions.
- Projection Bias: However you feel in the present, you tend to project that onto the future.
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The optimistic bias toward the future
There’s an extreme positivity bias toward the future: we think that future events are more important to our identity than the past events.
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The projection bias
It occurs when we are in a “hot” state of mind and incorrectly assume that our current needs will be the same as our future needs. As a result, we tend to make decisions based on how we feel right now instead of how we might feel in the future.
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