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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Future Is an Inspiring Place

People put their deepest values in strength service of the future. We don't always make time for or prioritize what matters, especially if we feel over scheduled and not in control of our schedule. The closest thing i've ever done to that is, several years ago, I invested a book royalty check in very, very nice bottles of wine as an act of commitment to my wife. Do you want to hear a funny story that was in a version of the book that i wound up cutting? A she had played a series of forecasting games called first five minutes of the future,. where you get these really like lightning round scenarios, and then you journal for five minutes as if you were in this future

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