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When planning and optimization prevent present moment awareness

I meal prep on Sundays and plan my weeks but feel like I am living my life in advance instead of experiencing it as it happens.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Excessive future focus creates temporal displacement, making you a stranger to your own immediate experience.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Linear vs. cyclical time — cultural differences?”

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