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		trhtrsh on Feb 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why speaking English can make you poor when you re... According to Chen's theory of time-compresion, a Mandarin speak who tries to say "I will spend money" [in the future], will say "I spend money", and spend money now.

drucken on Feb 23, 2013 [–]

It sounds more like time-overlap than "time-compression".

So, your future self is your current self. Anything you do right now is your future.

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