Reminder in mediation: Avoid decisions about the future on an empty stomach.

Instinctively, we know that our preferences are likely to shift from the long to short term when we are hungry. And a recent study highlights this phenomenon in dramatic terms: “researchers noted that if you offer people a reward now or double that reward in the future, they were normally willing to wait for 35 days to double the reward, but when hungry this plummeted to only 3 days.”

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