Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

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Instead, say hello to your future self and get ready to become more than a collection of half-hearted, New Year’s goals could ever offer. Hardy's insights have prompted me to set intentional (and realistic) goals for 2024 and work towards creating a life that I will genuinely look back on and feel good about. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author of Willpower Doesn't Work and Personality Isn't Permanent. Noted psychologist and best-selling author shows listeners how to transform their life by becoming the person they want to be. I actually found this one on Audible a couple of months ago and decided to save it to listen to on our annual end-of-year beach trip.

This is especially poignant because he draws quotes so liberally from historical figures without his privileges. But Dr Benjamin Hardy takes it further with threats to your future self, truths about your future self and 7 steps for being your future self. At the core, this book talks about reverse engineering your future and start talking necessary steps towards it. It's the answer to whether you'll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you'll eat junk food and what time you get up in the morning. The premise of this book is that the more connected you are to your Future Self, the better you live in the present.I’m at a place where I really want to make decisions for my future self and not be distracted by right now wants. It's highly addictive to get core insights on personally relevant topics without repetition or triviality.

They’ll also be in a different world—a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges.In fact his writing and talking are generally long dissertations of other people's work and what other people said and how other people do things. The end-of-history illusion is the misperception that who you are today is more or less the finished product – regardless of how much transformation you’ve previously experienced up to now. None of us has commitments to work or family that stand in the way of our formulating our own happiness and fulfillment. This truth isn’t only a more accurate understanding of human development, but it’s also key to manifesting your full potential.

I actually decided to DNF it a bunch of months ago, but somehow I picked it up again on my Kindle, and then I was so close to the end, I just went ahead and finished it.

We opt for the urgent, instead of the important, and then down the road, we find ourselves still stuck in the same place. This goes into the idea that we can't even imagine what our future selves will want for their future selves (future self 2. But the point of systemization remains making the actions and behaviors of your future self as frictionless as possible. Author talks about having an imaginary potential future in your mind and then doing "the work" toward making it a reality.