Future You
TED Radio Hour
The Importance of Being Close to Your Future Self
If our future selves look like that coworker who you kind of know but not really and you're particularly connected to, all of a sudden it starts to make sense why it's often hard for us to do things today that benefit us later. When you start to think in those terms, in some ways it's almost rational to live for today because these consequences are going to befall some other person.
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