Time Travel For Fun and Profit

Sorry, this is not about "time travel" in the technologically sexy sense, telling you how to dial up a year and be physically transported there right this minute. Nah, this is the more boring kind: psychological time travel.  This just allows you to use your imagination to communicate with your future self, potentially allowing you to optimize, or at least not totally screw up, your coming years. However, there are, even now, some virtual "time machines" out there that actually facilitate this process, if you care to go all Marty McFly and try to tinker with the fourth dimension. Wait, this movie came out nearly 30 years ago? Clearly someone must have messed with the space/time continuum.  NeuroEconomic Research Says: Use Your Imagination Recent neuroeconomic studies suggest that if you are easily able to imagine your future self, and feel all warm and fuzzy about that self, you will be way more likely to make sensible decisions in the present. Whereas if you're all distant and "whatever, dude," you are more likely to be spending your way into debt, screwing up your health, and paving the way for a grimmer future.  Which is fine if you're not worried about some hypothetical old fart spending his or her golden years in a refrigerator box by the railroad tracks, dumpster diving for Twinkies and Thunderbird. Hal Hershfield, an NYU professor, found that the more subjects are able to imagine themselves in the future, the better they are at saving fo...
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