TED Talks Daily TED Talks Daily Book Club: Essential questions to ask your future self | Meg Jay (re-release)
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Oct 12, 2025 
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Future Selves Feel Like Strangers
- We neglect our future selves because we fail to imagine or believe in them as real people.
- Closing that empathy gap makes us act kinder to our future selves and change present behavior.
There Are No Single Right Answers
- Many life decisions are 'large world' problems with no single right answer due to too many unknowns.
- That means your twenties are about discovering your own answers, not finding universal ones.
Virtual Aging Changed Saving Habits
- Researchers used virtual reality to show 20-somethings their aged faces and measured behaviors.
- Those who saw their older selves saved more for retirement than those who didn't.