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S26 E2: The Better You Know Your Future Self, the Better Your Long-Term Decisions Will Be (Hal Hershfield)

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How to Make Friends With Your Future Self

The more we can bring an image of that person and a feeling for that person into my present mind, then maybe I can feel that empathy that will make me make better choices now on behalf of that person. That's exactly the idea. The more we can make that future self more vivid, what we're really doing is taking the fiction of our future selves and making it more real.

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