Meghan Sullivan

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Elucidations · Episode 97: Meghan Sullivan discusses time biases · 11 Jun 2017 podcast

Or you should take the long view of how you fit in human history rather than the near biased view.

So one of my big projects, I'm just finishing this book on time biases.

One of my big projects is showing how these different attitudes about time

are a lot more similar than we might have supposed.

Especially when you dig into the arguments about why it's irrational to be near bias.

Those same arguments can apply for many other different kinds of time biases.

And also to try to convince you that being temporally neutral, like not having preferences that are sensitive to when things happen.

Can actually help you lead a better life.

People have long thought this about near bias.

So in the last like two years, there have been no fewer than a dozen popular psychology books that have come out trying to help people exercise more self-control and be less nearby.

So you have like Walter Mischel, the marshmallow test guy.

He wrote a book explaining how do you teach your children to wait for the second marshmallow?

How do you teach adults to like you know adequately and

vision their future so that they'll save their money.

Roy Baumeister, who does work on executive function and how we like you know, ways we can nudge ourselves into planning for the more distant future.

Or like Angela Duckworth just came out with this book about grit, so how like you can develop personal perseverance to excel at jobs that we'd normally thought took a lot of innate talent.

There's all this work trying to get us to think more about our future and to care more about our the time horizons and our distant future.

But a lot of those same ideas, if we take them really seriously, I think could make us care more about our past.

This is a great question.

So something that's really important in this debate is we have to distinguish people who discount uh future events because they're in the future from people who discount those same events because they think they're really risky or improbable.

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