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Why We're Mean to Our Future Selves (LIVE from Boston)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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The Power of Language to Better Connect With Our Future Self

There's enormous power in putting yourself into the shoes of another person. We treat strangers or people who are dissimilar from us in very different ways than we treat ourselves and similar others. One way to fix that problem is to simply ask subjects to spend five minutes writing a short little vignette from the perspective of that other person using first person pronouns.

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