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My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life

The Michael Shermer Show

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How to Delay Gratification

Why save for a fabulous 75th birthday party when the odds were pretty high that you'd be dead by 50? For most of our ancestors, a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush. The key is projecting your current self into the future and asking yourself now what you want to happen then. You are not predetermined to be a certain way.

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