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Jan 6, 2021

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The Psychological Trap That’s Keeping You From Making Smart Career Choices

By understanding ‘temporal discounting,’ you can learn to make better decisions

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Would you rather have one apple today or two apples tomorrow?

When faced with this choice, you’d likely have to think a bit. You’d start pondering how much you like apples, how…

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