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VitriolicViolet t1_j39449n wrote

Reply to comment by leisure-rules in Our ability to resist temptation depends on how fragmented one's mind is | On the inconsistencies in one’s mental setup by IAI_Admin

>; he says the most people feel as if their current self-image is how they will be forever, despite the multitude of changes that they went through up to that point

how?

doesnt make any sense to me, obviously we are all different at different points in our lives, an unchanging person is effectively a dead person.

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leisure-rules t1_j39938f wrote

he cited some studies on it. Typically people look at the past 10 years and recognize all the ways they changed, but cannot extrapolate that into how they will continue to change in the future. It's an identity thing, like "this is who I am, of course I won't change"

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