Comments on: Why Your Future Self is an Emotional Mystery: The Projection Bias http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-your-future-self-is-emotional.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted Curran http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-your-future-self-is-emotional.php/comment-page-1#comment-21576 Ted Curran Fri, 16 May 2008 02:47:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-your-future-self-is-an-emotional-mystery-the-projection-bias.php#comment-21576 This all reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld bit from the beginning of "The Glasses" episode:<br /><br />"JERRY: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?', oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you're ..... (?), you're exhausted, groggy, oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy loses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore". This all reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld bit from the beginning of "The Glasses" episode:

"JERRY: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?', oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you're ..... (?), you're exhausted, groggy, oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy loses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore".

]]> By: Dr Martin Russell http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-your-future-self-is-emotional.php/comment-page-1#comment-21570 Dr Martin Russell Mon, 12 May 2008 23:35:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2008/05/why-your-future-self-is-an-emotional-mystery-the-projection-bias.php#comment-21570 It would be interesting to know if thin people made better predictions than overweight people.<br /><br />One solution with food is to narrow the gap between what you "should" do and what you "will" do.<br /><br />Paul McKenna has a good system for this as I describe in my book review of his system, on my blog www.DrMartinRussell.com<br /><br />Unfortunately there is little research on variations like he uses so it won't appear on this blog anytime soon. May have to do the research myself :) It would be interesting to know if thin people made better predictions than overweight people.

One solution with food is to narrow the gap between what you "should" do and what you "will" do.

Paul McKenna has a good system for this as I describe in my book review of his system, on my blog http://www.DrMartinRussell.com

Unfortunately there is little research on variations like he uses so it won't appear on this blog anytime soon. May have to do the research myself :)

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