The Idea That The Future

Every Night For The Next Week, Set Aside Ten Minutes Before You Go To Sleep. Write Down Three Things That Went Well Today And Why They Went Well...writing About Why The Positive Events In Your Life Happened May Seem Awkward At First, But Please Stick With It For One Week. It Will Get Easier. The Odds Are That You Will Be Less Depressed, Happier, And Addicted To This Exercise Six Months From Now.

It Is The Consistency Of The Information That Matters For A Good Story, Not Its Completeness. Indeed, You Will Often Find That Knowing Little Makes It Easier To Fit Everything You Know Into A Coherent Pattern.

People Are Very Good [at] Thinking About Agents. The Mind Is Set Really Beautifully To Think About Agents. Agents Have Traits. Agents Have Behaviors. We Understand Agents. We Form Global Impression Of Their Personalities. We Are Really Not Very Good At Remembering Sentences Where The Subject Of The Sentence Is An Abstract Notion.

The Experiencing Self Lives Its Life Continuously. It Has Moments Of Experience, One After The Other.

A Person Who Has Not Made Peace With His Losses Is Likely To Accept Gambles That Would Be Unacceptable To Him Otherwise.