Life is not short

Re:Life is not short by rowanG077 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:12PM (#31888014)

They are definitely future planning things. IF you don't go for a run now you won't notice tomorrow, you won't notice in a week. You won't even notice in a month. But compare a person who is 50 who was active for his entire life and one who isn't and the differences can be stark.

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Re:Life is not short by eikenberry on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:29PM (#31903752)

I've been thinking about this and IMO really it is more about the focus on regret as a motivator for action. Regret is a negative emotion, so this is basically a strategy of pain avoidance. I think it is this aspect that is the problem, not the future forecasting. That you are optimizing for pain avoidance and not your happiness.

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Re:Life is not short by wruza on Sunday June 26, 2022 @06:03PM (#31888521)

Can’t we say that an inactive person just lived through their life quicker because they didn’t spend time on these activities? Absolute years of life isn’t a meaningful metric here, imo.

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