Are We Right or Wrong to Think of Our Future Self as Another Person?

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Is myself tomorrow a different person than I am today? Here's the one way I would answer that. It's quite understandable that we would think of our future self as if it's another person. And the reason I say that is because we do change. In some ways, we change quite a bit.

Can vividly imagining your future self help you make better decisions? Hal Hershfield thinks so, and he’s got the research to prove it. Hal — who teaches at UCLA and has been called a “pioneering psychologist” by none other than our curator Adam Grant — is out with a new book called “Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today,” and he is here all week to help Michael, you, and future you achieve success.