You Don't Know What Your Future Self Wants

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December 3, 2022

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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 }