How many of the activities that we indulge, as well as paths we pursue, are driven by what we find ourselves nostalgic for?

If we don’t guard against the seductions of nostalgia, we risk letting our decisions get directed by a desire to re-create feelings that were the product of a unique and non-repeatable experience.

One doesn’t necessarily create future nostalgia by tugging at the roots of a present nostalgia.

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The Thoughts of Others

“What we learn from the past is to maximise the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.” – Daniel Kahneman