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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. all right welcome to episode 768 hello my friend welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who dis as, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about who you are today and who you want to be tomorrow in the future, your future self. And I think this is a really interesting topic and underrated topic, the space between who you are today and your future self.

And, you know, technically speaking, your future self is a complete stranger to you.

And not like metaphorically, but like neurologically based, that is a true statement.

Your future self is a stranger.

When you picture yourself 10 years from now, and that's a version of

you who's older, wiser, hopefully living the dream, living the life that you're building right now,

your brain doesn't recognize that person as you. It processes future you the same way it processes

you seeing or thinking about a random stranger on the street, right?

A stranger, someone else's problem, someone else's responsibility.

I don't know that person.

And this tendency, and I'll talk a little bit more specifically about that in a second, this is not some character flaw.

It's based in neuroscience in a sense.

And it's why a lot of people can't sustain the vision

and the work that, you know, you need to put in in order to be the future self that you want to be.

There's a psychologist at UCLA named Hal Herschfield who spent years and years and years

studying what he calls

temporal self-continuity, which is basically the degree to which you feel connected to your future

self. Temporal self-continuity. And he basically did all this research where he put participants

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