Because positive illusions typically provide a short-term benefit with larger long-term costs, they can become a form of emotional procrastination.
-- Max H. Bazerman
Context? I can randomly replace elements of this by their opposites and get something that sounds just as truthy.
Try it!
"[Because/although] [positive/negative] [illusions/perceptions] provide a [short/long]-term [benefit/cost] with [larger/smaller] [long/short]-term [costs/benefits], they can [become/avoid] a form of [emotional/intellectual] [procrastination/spur to action]."
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: