Morgan Housel

Will I regret doing or not doing this thing?

Easier said than done, but something I think about a lot.

There's a great quote from Jerry Seinfeld.

He says, self-control is empathy with your future self.

It's you are making a decision to either do or not do something today and

Because you have respect for your future self and you care about your future self.

You know there's going to be a Stephen 10 years from now and you want to do something today with compassion for that person 10 years from now.

I'm guessing kids help in some regard because they give you a future.

I think about.

Yeah.

Right.

Something that's going to outlive you and you want to teach them something and and, you know, push them into becoming someone that's going to outlive you.

So you're having like by default, you're thinking about something that's going to outlive yourself.

boring boring right less let's life less spontaneous less interesting less or less wonder i mean there's that thing people realize this that summer vacation when you're 10 years old seems like it lasts forever yeah but when you're an adult summer goes by in three seconds and you're like what like why does why is time going faster at least one of the theories for why it seems like time goes faster as you age is because when you're a child

Every day is something new.

You're experiencing something for the first time.

It's a constant chain of novelty.

When you're an adult, it's probably the same commute, going to the same job, living in the same house.

And one day blends into the next.

And before you know it, 10 years has passed.