17.10.06

"Optimal impulse control is extremely hard."

This quote amuses me. It is ascribed to a post about self-imposed and externally-imposed behavior restraints.

All these are strategies to control the behavior of the parties involved. We all know that short term pleasures do tend to displace long term benefits. These schemes are necessary because we don’t trust our neighbors, our children and most interestingly ourselves! Optimal impulse control is extremely hard.

We all make “personal rules” that mimic the systems above because we don’t trust our future selves. This lack of trust is based on experience; in what makes for a variation of catch 22, if we had kept to our personal rules in the past we wouldn’t need them.

Know thyself.
-delphi oracle temple

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