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690: Jane McGonigal | How to See the Future and Be Ready for Anything

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Is Temporal Distance a Good Exercise to Put Something on Your Calendar Ten Years Out?

When we imagine the future, we switch from first person to third person perspective. Temporal distance also creates mental distance where we don't feel so attached to our current beliefs and behaviors. It's almost like an avitar that controlling in a video game, rather than being right in it yourself. You can literally schedule decades in advance on these ditinal calendars. They're really easy to go forward. See, ten years from now, nothing's on your schedule. So what would you like to put on your schedule? I do this with companies. I have employees, imagine you're still working at your company ten years from not,. For people to day, that's actually quite hard to

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