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A recent New Yorker piece explored the psychology behind how we view the tajectory of our lives. Current research tells us that when it comes to looking back at our past and into our future, people can be categorized into two camps: dividers, and continuers.
For dividers, their past and future selves feel like strangers - fictional characters from a... See more
For dividers, their past and future selves feel like strangers - fictional characters from a... See more
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
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The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org- “When making decisions about life right now, we often apply different standards to ourselves than to other people—but, when we make decisions about our future selves, we use the same standards. Thinking about our future selves has even been shown to resemble third-person thinking at the neural level.”
The New Yorker • Being in Time
This, too, is evolution at work. It’s not that evolution ever lets us stop playing the “get more resources” game, it’s that our strategy evolves. Once baseline needs are met, you can devote yourself to ways to get, well, you guessed it, seriously more resources—for yourself, for your family, for your tribe, for your species. As high-minded as somet
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
Kaustubh Sule added
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An alternative approach avoids trying to predict what will happen to consciousness and instead focuses on a narrower question: what might a wiser society look like? This is potentially a more manageable field of inquiry and one that can lead to action in the present.