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Career Planning: We Can'T Predict What The Future Will Bring Us Happiness.

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our erroneous concept of future thinking has been named "Gilbert" by Wilson and miswanting.

A series of studies have found that we predict the ability to make us happier in the future.

One of my favorite experiments is that two groups of subjects take part in the experiment, and they will get a free sandwich. This is definitely a good thing for < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > college student < /a >.

one group chooses the sandwiches they need for the week; the other group chooses the sandwiches they need every day.

An incredible thing happened.

Those who choose sandwiches daily choose the same sandwiches at lunchtime, and the subjects are reasonably happy about their choices.

but surprisingly, those who plan ahead for lunch next week are changeable.

They choose turkey sandwiches on Monday, tuna sandwiches on Tuesday, and egg sandwiches on Wednesday.

But with the coming week, most of them don't like the change they think they should have.

In fact, they are more unhappy and show significant differences compared with the subjects they choose everyday.

"if we know our future, we are all so unhappy."

prophecy failure

this kind of "diversity" and "identity" are only a special deviation when people predict the future < /a > emotional state in < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp".

Here is another positive psychology's "counterintuitive bias".

The main thing is to observe how people predict their feelings when they encounter catastrophic bad things in their lives or fantastical positive events.

for example: if you win the lottery, how good do you feel? Most people predict that their lives will be completely changed and they will live happier.

What is the conclusion of the study? Yes, people are really happy when they have just discovered that they won the lottery, but 6 months later, the level of happiness has returned to the "baseline" level of life.

ridiculous is that in this noble journey, whether we predict the feeling after our lottery, or predict what sandwiches we are going to eat at noon, if we know our future, we are all so unhappy.

So when we can't predict what sandwiches we will eat next week, how can we predict what kind of jobs we will be doing in the next 20 years?

with the increase of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > > age < /a >, we will become wiser sometimes.

As we learn, whether it is unknown or known, we are not good at predicting our future.

We are beginning to realize that this is not more scientific than what we once thought.

"people begin to understand that the future contains so little uncertainty."

unfamiliar future

that means your future is a stranger to you.

So, you know, the same is why it's hard for a 18 year old young person to choose his career.

But for a middle-aged person, when his learning is very limited, what he encountered is a severe condemnation.

this seems to be another reason why people are getting older and prudent, but it is far from that.

To be more precise, prudence does not increase with age, but is implied by self-knowledge.

People begin to understand that the future contains many unnoticeable uncertainties, even those that seem to be under our control, just like we choose sandwiches.

the strongest guesses beat the most prudent plan .

the debate on "wrong ideas" has been applied to any area of our life, including forecasting our future.

Career planning has become a painful matter because it is such an important decision, and we must understand it through very limited useful information.

the best career planning strategy is this: try your best to guess and test it. Don't be surprised if you don't like it.

However, please do not mention this in any interview.