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You, But Better

Hidden Brain

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Do You Have Two Selves?

i want to talk about some of the ways in which we can make our lives for our future selves better than they might be otherwise. The comedian jerry sinfeld has a wonderful a summary of this idea, and i want to play you a clip of what he says. I feel i do this all the time myself, katy, i'm having so much fun doing something or agreeing to some new project, and i forget that i'm essentially binding future me to very same choices. It's a major challenge. And i think one of the most interesting things about human nature is this is one of the challenges that we really all face.

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