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Preferring smaller, immediate rewards over larger, later rewards. Patience is a virtue that present-me doesn't have.
Drives procrastination, debt accumulation, health problems, and explains why immediate gratification often wins over long-term planning.
This bias explains most self-control failures - people dramatically overvalue immediate rewards compared to future ones, even when the future reward is much larger.
"Breaking news: Local human discovers they're not as rational as they thought. Water is wet."