You Don't Know What Your Future Self Wants

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December 3, 2022

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You Don't Know What Your Future Self Wants

The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort.

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You Don't Know What Your Future Self Wants

"'You are constantly becoming a new person,' says journalist Shankar Vendantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the "illusion of continuity" -- the belief that our future selves will share the same views, perspectives and hopes as our current selves -- and shows how we can more proactively craft the people we are to become." Science writer Shankar Vedantam shares more in this fascinating TED talk. { read more }

Be The Change

Experiment with Vedantam's three pieces of advice: "Stay curious. Practice humility. Be brave."


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