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To Change Your Life, Learn How to Trust Your Future Self
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To Change Your Life, Learn How to Trust Your Future Self

Jeff Wise
New York, 2017
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Waking up earlier, saving for a down payment on a house, learning a foreign language – no matter the goal you have in mind, your brain will do its best to sabotage it. Things may go smoothly for a week or two, but before you know it, you’re pressing snooze, spending your hard-earned cash on takeout and watching Netflix again. But does it have to be this way? New York magazine writer Jeff Wise reveals research into self-control that may change your life. Dive into psychological studies and concrete suggestions to achieve your dreams. getAbstract advises anyone who feels stuck to let Wise’s wisdom move you forward.

Take-Aways

  • In the 1960s, researcher George Ainslie studied how pigeons make decisions. He learned that the birds were better at making good choices between two options if the payouts were both in the distant future.
  • People can “foresee future payoffs.” Each time you do something toward a goal, you get a feeling of satisfaction.
  • Positive feelings accumulate over time in a process Ainslie calls “bundling.”

About the Author

Jeff Wise is a magazine writer based in New York and author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger.

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