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145 | Emily Balcetis | How the Ultra Successful Leverage Their Visual “Perception Gap” to Crush Their Goals and Accomplish More

The Greatness Machine

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Is There a Disconnect Between Time and Vision?

Psychologists know that we need to connect those dots. We need to like make that connection between today's choices and far off tomorrow's outcomes more synchronous. I was working with a bunch of people that were about 20 years old 20 in their 20s to early 30s they were all on the brink of graduating from college when I asked them are you saving for retirement? They all said no nobody's saving for retirement in their20s neither was I wasn't going to blame them for that. So I took a page out of another researchers playbook Hal Hirschfield he's a professor at UCLA and I morphed morphed that photo with an older successful person such as Maya Angelou or Betty White

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