The psychology of your future self | Dan Gilbert
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the “end of history illusion,” where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we’ll be for the rest of time. Hint: that’s not the case.
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i was listening it quite intently. didn't know what made these studios guys laugh- repeatedly??
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished”. This was my mistake
The Lost son of Sıgmund Freud
you may not realize that you are changing every single day, other people will notices before you do. No wonder why people react back at you
“Your preferences, likes and dislikes, are transient, and thats the norms”
There's nothing profound nor significant n this speech.
Ok, this is dum. Potential occurrences Vs hindsight observations. Yeah, is easier to interpret actual events rather than correctly predict the future. I win ted talk.
Great talk but dang so many dudes in this presentation :p
So the Buddha was right.
For anyone who's interested, Dr. Gilbert's Lab is available here! 😃 http://www.danielgilbert.com/
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant thing in our life is change.– Dan Gilbert
Life changing (finger crossed).
That was an incredible amount of information that was fit into a just under 7-min. It's quite refreshing to see a TED talk actually utilizing the entire timeslot for a change.
I mistakenly thought he was Steve Jobs
now, go and ask Metallica fans about it. Just do it 😉
I cannot figure out what middle aged adults work hard to gain that older adults work hard to lose
Anyone else watching in English class ???
This was one powerful ted talk. I hope i come back to this video 10 years later and see how much I’ve changed
I'm going to come back to this video after 10 years and see how much I've changed.
Any metalheads in here to prove Dan's case of ticket price wrong? =))
Why do I think that somehow, doubting yourself to ever reach your dream will most likely brings you closer to it? At age 14 I could only dream about writing my heart out on a song and performing in front of people because I had a really low self esteem. In short it’s just a sad dream of me to ever really become a well established professional performing musician. 10 years later – I’m reaching the age of 24 and what I thought was just a dream is starting to manifest itself into reality
Idk how to explain it further, but if anyone feels like discussing their thoughts or something from my story then I’d be more than willing to start a thread in the comment section. 🖤
Very Interesting, Walter.
This just made me feel better, i needed this message