Why You Should Start Living in the Past

to live in the creative present we must return to the past.

if we could slow down and evaluate each one of these choices, we would start to see the golden thread — the reason, the why, the purpose — that links all of our choices together. No matter what kind of fairy tale we like to tell ourselves about the purpose for our lives, this pattern will tell us the truth about what we’re doing every day and why w

thinking about the past.

My encouragement, then, to lead a considered life (before we look at some suggestions as to what that might entail) is an appeal to acknowledge what Kahneman calls ‘the tyranny of the remembering self’. We don’t need to treat it as oppressive, but we can acknowledge that it has the upper hand. To live well and happily necessitates that we engage wi