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Why You Knew Better and Did It Anyway
We usually explain regret as knowing better but lacking discipline. This episode argues something more useful: in a hot state, the values on your internal scoreboard change.
I connect Epictetus with hot-cold empathy gaps, self-control replication research and implementation intentions. Then I give you a four-minute handover note: one specific if-then plan, written while you can still see clearly, for the version of you who will not realise their judgement has changed.
Sources and further reading:
- Epictetus, Discourses 1.28
- Seneca, Letters 76.34-35
- George Loewenstein, “Hot-Cold Empathy…
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