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?

I believe if you can do three things, if you can stay curious, you can practice humility, and you can be brave, then your future self will look back at you in 20 or 30 years – will look back, not with resentment or bewilderment, but will look back at you and say: “thank you.”

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