Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management¶
Schelling, T. C. (1978). Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management. 68(2), 290-294.
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- Precommitment Device
- Its strength is that it defends a present commitment against the maker's own predictable future weakness — temptation, fear, short-term pressure — which is exactly the failure that reputation and after-the-fact remedies cannot reach.
This sourceSchelling describes self-management devices that let a person's planning self constrain a predictable later self at the moment of temptation.
- Its strength is that it defends a present commitment against the maker's own predictable future weakness — temptation, fear, short-term pressure — which is exactly the failure that reputation and after-the-fact remedies cannot reach.
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