Kevin Kelly: prediction

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…Why is the ex post perspective better than the ex ante? If so many people at the end feel they haven’t done enough, at the time, they probably had pretty good reasons not to do it, right? If it’s such a common phenomenon. And at the end of your life it seems like it would have been easy to have done it, because you’re no longer faced with all the costs. Yes. I think that would be true, but I think most people wind up not doing very much not because they had good reasons to but because it was easier or that it was inconvenient at the time. I think sometimes the best things that we do are not necessarily convenient. I think if there was legitimate reason for not getting things done, then people probably wouldn’t have regret about it. I think the reason they do have regrets is that they understood that their reasons for not doing it really are not really valid. If someone asks you for advice on “how do I get better at following advice,” what do you tell them?…

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