Thursday, January 17, 2008

Consistency over time

In all things consistency is triumphant: investing, learning, rearing, relationships. The problem we have is that we are not designed biologically for persistent action over long periods of time. The long term is counterintuitive.

We can make sense of causes and effects that are not widely separated in time. It is progressively more difficult to separate cause and effect with increasing spans of time between them.

Age is an important factor in the ability to consider the long term.

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