Mistakes in predicting our future feelings

The main barriers to accurate affective forecasting:

• 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. 
• Focalism: Wh...

There’s an extreme positivity bias toward the future: we think that future events are more important to our identity than the past events.

But we have to temper our expectations and keep in mind that no matter the degree in which we can dream up detailed scenes of things yet to come,

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. 

Another way to think about i...