🇳🇴 Thor — backup account
Someone in a Hacker News thread said something that gave me a revelation:
Selfishness and shortsightedness are one and the same thing.
When you choose immediate gratification over later reward, you are being selfish; not toward another person, but toward your future self. You treat your future self as a different person, and if you don't feel compassion toward that person, you won't be inclined to help them.
🇳🇴 Thor — backup account
Seen this way, every moment is a balancing act between the needs of now-you and those of future-you. There's always this other person you need to keep in mind who is going to suffer if you act too selfishly, and they depend 100% on you. When you do the right thing, you become their hero.
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