From Zero to Hero-Doing The Math

Working on Ships Has Been A Real Life Saver And Life-Extension I had an expression "I haven't been everywhere, but it is on my list." This was the psychology of my "future self". People are works in progress who mistakenly think they are finished. Hint. That is not the case. Yet the power of time transforms our values and shapes our lives and profoundly influence the people we are going to become- For example young sailors pay good money to get tattoos removed that teenagers paid good money to get. and as Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, in this TED Lecture adds, Middle-aged people rushed to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on. The question is, as a psychologist, that fascinates me is, why do we make decisions that our future selves so often regret? How inappropriate to c...