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"What differentiates us from other animals?"- a great question
A few posts ago I wrote about the concept called nexting. Nexting is the brain's way of filling in what it believes will happen next. BUT monkeys can do nexting.
What humans can do that no other animal can not do is plan for long term future. We have the capability to plan future beyond the near future. We can plan our bucket list. We can plan our lives 1, 5, 10 years in the future.
So combining the near future prediction with the ability to plan long term make us unique.
As we learned in the nexting post, nexting fails us when we are surprised by the completely unexpected. Because it is in the neat future we can quickly realize when we are wrong. Predicting the 'later' is a bit more challenging.
Unless we have a specific date when something will happen it is easy to put off whether something will happen or not. For example, graduating from a college usually happens in four years BUT sometimes it happens in 4.5 or even 5 years. As long as we graduate the time difference is not that important. So planning the later gives us general direction for our long term future.
Today's question is:
"How well do you plan your life years in the future?"
"What differentiates us from other animals?"- a great question
A few posts ago I wrote about the concept called nexting. Nexting is the brain's way of filling in what it believes will happen next. BUT monkeys can do nexting.
What humans can do that no other animal can not do is plan for long term future. We have the capability to plan future beyond the near future. We can plan our bucket list. We can plan our lives 1, 5, 10 years in the future.
So combining the near future prediction with the ability to plan long term make us unique.
As we learned in the nexting post, nexting fails us when we are surprised by the completely unexpected. Because it is in the neat future we can quickly realize when we are wrong. Predicting the 'later' is a bit more challenging.
Unless we have a specific date when something will happen it is easy to put off whether something will happen or not. For example, graduating from a college usually happens in four years BUT sometimes it happens in 4.5 or even 5 years. As long as we graduate the time difference is not that important. So planning the later gives us general direction for our long term future.
Today's question is:
"How well do you plan your life years in the future?"
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