The Daily Disconnect

Jim Mason
2 min readJun 23, 2021

We humans have trouble connecting our daily actions to long-term goals

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What we actually do as individual people depends on a priority queue (our “to-do list”) that we maintain and update in our brains. The next action we take is the one at the front of the queue.

We add new items to the queue all the time. Some are derived from our long-term plans, but many are derived from immediate external stimuli…

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership