Taking a Long-Term Perspective

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the power of taking a long-term perspective in your thoughts, actions, and deeds.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting
0:05.1	a little better at life.
0:06.9	I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about taking
0:11.9	a long-term perspective.
0:14.7	More to come on that in a moment.
0:16.2	First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells.
0:40.1	So I came across a quote today by Warren Buffett, and it says,
0:46.4	"'Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.'"
0:53.2	I like that.
0:56.2	You know, there's a tendency to focus on the short-term results, not just in that we want
1:06.5	immediate gratification, but we're literally wired to make decisions based on what the
1:14.9	fruit of that decision will be in the short term.
1:19.3	From an evolutionary perspective, a day-to-day basis, when we're assessing, this is going
1:24.8	to help me survive, or not, those short-term decisions made a lot of sense, or making decisions
1:32.3	based on short-term gains made a lot of sense.
1:36.7	This is why when it comes to trying to change short-term habits, it's not always that useful
1:45.0	to focus on the long-term.
1:48.6	So let's just say you are trying to not eat as much sugary cake.
1:54.6	If you think in that moment of really having that impulse of, I want the sugary cake,
1:59.5	you think, well, you know, in 50 years, 30 years, or 10 years, I want to be able to climb
2:05.4	this mountain with my, with my grandchild, you know, yeah, compelling, but often not compelling
2:12.7	enough of a vision to overpower the short-term need for that gratification.
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