From the course: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Quit

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What would be different now?

What would be different now?

From the course: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Quit

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What would be different now?

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- Here's an interesting fact about human beings. We are terrible at a thing called affective prediction. Affective prediction is the ability to predict how you will feel in the future, what your affect will be in the future. I'm sure you've noticed this in your own life. You think, oh, I'm going to go here and it's going to be like this, or, I'm going to be with this person and it's going to be like that. And then you get there, and it's actually nothing like that. You end up feeling totally different than the way you thought you would feel. And that makes sense, because as a human being, predicting that, it's just not something we're very good at. It's one of the reasons we don't save more money for retirement, is because we have a hard time imagining how we're going to feel 30 years from now. However, we are very good at hindsight. It's 2020, right? So, as you are considering the situation that you're in, ask…

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