Foresight can be a great asset. Understanding the manner by which problems arise helps you take steps to prevent said problems. Often, preventing problems of the future (benefit) does require extra effort (cost) at the present. But it is well worth it because the effort required to deal with a problem if, or when, it crops up is typically much greater than the initial prevention requirements. So keep the future on your mind. Avoid yourself great expense and especially great suffering.
The most obvious application for this is with your own wellbeing. Everything you do every single day plays a role in this. Unfortunately, it is something that many of us need to improve upon.
What are some other places to apply this concept? And what are ways to fight impulses of the present that sabotage the prevention of future problems?
| Tags: foresight, living vitally
"[...] Second, a danger lies in risk compensation - where having ABS gives drivers a falsely sense of security, causing drivers to drive with less care. Drivers who don’t have ABS, on the contrary, may have a very real perception of how dangerous conditions can be; often from experiencing their brakes locking. The non-ABS driver prevents locking by carefully applying pressure to the brake pedal, which requires the driver to be well aware of the road conditions. This awareness, needed by non-ABS drivers to judge maximum braking force, is not needed by ABS drivers which causes them to be less respective of dangerous driving conditions. Remember: there is no difference in braking power between ABS and non-ABS cars. The very nature of ABS is that it allows for safety after the danger point (too much braking in dangerous conditions) has occurred while the nature of non-ABS requires preventing such a situation from occurring. We already know that we’re better off preventing problems than treating them after allowing them to occur. [...]