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Future You

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

How to Connect With Your Future Selves

The more the future self looked like another person on a neural level, the less likely people would be to save for that future self. Hirschfield: "Even when we say we want to do things for our future selves, it can still be really hard to follow through because I'm pulled by all the temptations that exist right now"

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