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Get
yourself
a fat reward.
I hope you'll each take a moment to think about how you could use something like this to give
yourself
more access to your own world, and to make your own travel more convenient and more fun.
It's been known for a long time, you can't tickle
yourself
as well as other people can.
You have to do it for
yourself.
So if you take English speakers and I just show you someone breaking a vase, and I say, "He broke the vase," as opposed to "The vase broke," even though you can witness it yourself, you can watch the video, you can watch the crime against the vase, you will punish someone more, you will blame someone more if I just said, "He broke it," as opposed to, "It broke."
She identified, from the research, that there were five things you could do: seek novelty, challenge yourself, think creatively, do things the hard way and network.
You might ask yourself, what's the usefulness of a robot that's unstable?
But what we call it is R&D-I-Y, or "research and develop it yourself."
Now in my case, this really wasn't a problem, because it's actually very easy to laugh at
yourself
when you're 29 years old and you want your mommy because you don't like your new tattoo.
Do you ever find
yourself
referencing a study in conversation that you didn't actually read?
And you might be asking yourself, why aren't academics engaging with popular media?
Nowadays, while you're typing a CAPTCHA, not only are you authenticating
yourself
as a human, but in addition you're helping us to digitize books.
And it's like cleansing
yourself
so that you can ... by saying all that, it means your work is good somehow.
So where compassion comes is where you surprisingly discover you lose
yourself
in some way: through art, through meditation, through understanding, through knowledge actually, knowing that you have no such boundary, knowing your interconnectedness with other beings.
You can experience
yourself
as the other beings when you see through the delusion of being separated from them.
When you're no longer locked in yourself, and as the wisdom or the intelligence or the scientific knowledge of the nature of the world, that enables you to let your mind spread out, and empathize, and enhance the basic human ability of empathizing, and realizing that you are the other being, somehow by that opening, you can see the deeper nature of life.
So I said, "Well, you know, you're all in this
yourself.
And the first person who gets happy when you do that, you don't do anything for anybody else, but you get happier, you yourself, because your whole perception broadens and you suddenly see the whole world and all of the people in it.
Tying
yourself
to a mast is perhaps the oldest written example of what psychologists call a commitment device.
A commitment device is a decision that you make with a cool head to bind
yourself
so that you don't do something regrettable when you have a hot head.
If you set goals for
yourself
and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them, it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them.
Tying
yourself
to the mast is the oldest one, but there are other ones such as locking a credit card away with a key or not bringing junk food into the house so you won't eat it or unplugging your Internet connection so you can use your computer.
But despite my like for them, there's two nagging concerns that I've always had about commitment devices, and you might feel this if you use them
yourself.
You're just telling yourself, "Without you, commitment device, I am nothing, I have no self-discipline."
You're putting yourself, you're binding yourself, and you're weaseling your way out of it, and then you're beating
yourself
up afterwards.
To bring this to a wider audience, I've been working with Hal and Allianz to create something we call the behavioral time machine, in which you not only get to see
yourself
in the future, but you get to see anticipated emotional reactions to different levels of retirement wealth.
And what's good is, unlike in the experiments that Hal and myself ran with Russ Smith, you don't have to program these by
yourself
in order to see the virtual reality.
Hal is here, so I think we owe it to him as well as
yourself
to disabuse you of that last image.
You know, when you want to forget, you don't want to see things, so you just want to go to your room, to lock
yourself
inside and say, "That's enough."
And you can almost trick
yourself
into thinking you're eating Doritos.
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