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“A ‘commitment device’ is a decision you make with a cool head to bind yourself so that you don’t do something regrettable when you have a hot head. Because there are two heads inside each person.” Daniel Goldstein on the battle between your present and future self. In the vein of legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s notions of the experiencing self and the remembering self in one of the best psychology and philosophy books of 2011.