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In 2009 study, researchers found while tracing brain activity that when people thought about their future selves, their brains reacted more like how they would think about another person (or a stranger) than like they would when thinking about themselves. The point was that your future self is a whole other person.

I now realize that “pay yourself first” is not referring to your current self and giving your current self fun money. It is referring to paying your future self. The moment you realize that, so many of your decisions change. To truly commit, you have to separate your current self from that money and realize that it is not “yours” to spend.