2 Posts found for Author: Shankar Vedantam

All of us spend so much of our lives trying to make our future selves happy. We don’t stop to ask if it is possible that in 20 or 30 years our future selves are going to look back at us with bewilderment, with resentment, that our future selves will ask us, what made you think that is what I would want?

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Author: Shankar Vedantam | Source: TED | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

When we look backwards, we can see enormous changes in who we have become. But when we look forwards, we tend to imagine that we are going to be the same people in the future. Sure, we imagine that the world will be different… but we don’t imagine that we ourselves will have different perspectives, different views, different preferences in the future. I call this … [ Read more ]

Author: Shankar Vedantam | Source: TED | Subject: Psychology | Behavior