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Should we eat, drink and be merry or make sacrifices now to benefit our future selves? Professor Steven Pinker's guide to thinking better.
Should we eat, drink and be merry or make sacrifices now to benefit our future selves? In his guide to thinking better, Professor Steven Pinker explores what's called 'future discounting' in decision making.
He's joined by...
Dr Maria Kournikova, psychologist, poker champion and author of 鈥楾he Biggest Bluff; How I learned to pay attention, master myself and win鈥� and Bina Venkataraman, an editor at The Boston Globe, former senior advisor in the Obama administration, and the author of 鈥楾he Optimists鈥� Telescope; Thinking ahead in a reckless age.鈥�
Producers: Imogen Walford and Joe Kent
Editor: Emma Rippon
Think with Pinker is produced in partnership with The Open University.
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Think with Pinker
Professor Steven Pinker's guide to thinking better.
