882: Setting your Future Self up for Success with Dr. Hal Hershfield

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Hal Hershfield discusses how to make–and stick with–better decisions to enrich your future self.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you should build a relationship with your future self.

2) How to motivate yourself to do the hard things now.

3) The key to creating lasting habits.

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— ABOUT HAL —

Hal Hershfield is a Professor of Marketing, Behavioral Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and holds the UCLA Anderson Board of Advisors Term Chair in Management.

His research, which sits at the intersection of psychology and economics, examines the ways we can improve our long-term decisions. He earned his PhD in psychology from Stanford University.

Hershfield publishes in top academic journals and also contributes op-eds to the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. He consults with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, many financial services firms such as Fidelity, First Republic, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Avantis, and marketing agencies such as Droga5. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Hershfield was named one of “The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World” by business education website Poets & Quants. His book, Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today, will be published in June.

• Book: Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today

• LinkedIn: Hal Hershfield

• Twitter: @HalHershfield

• Website: HalHershfield.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “The End of History Illusion” by Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel T. Gilbert , AND Timothy D. Wilson

• Book: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

• Past episode: 090: Shocking Ways to Hack Your Habits with Maneesh Sethi

• Past episode: 317: How to Form Habits the Smart Way with BJ Fogg, PhD

• App: StickK

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.5	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McHydus.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to episode 882 with How Hershfield.
0:22.6	How has an excellent perspective on how you can set your future self-upper success by
0:28.0	making wise decisions taken into account your future self and then ultimately sticking
0:33.1	with them?
0:34.1	So good things happen for you.
0:35.1	So you'll learn one, why you should build a relationship with your future self, two,
0:39.4	how to motivate yourself to do the hard things now, and three, the key to creating lasting
0:44.2	habits.
0:45.6	So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that
0:48.1	we've mentioned here, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep882.
0:54.0	Now here's a bit about how how Hershfield is a professor of marketing, behavioral, decision-making
0:57.9	and psychology at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and holds the UCLA Anderson Board
1:02.6	of Advisors team chair and management.
1:05.5	His research sits at the intersection of psychology and economics and examines the ways
1:10.4	we can improve our long-term decisions.
1:12.9	He earned his PhD in psychology from Stanford University.
1:16.0	Hershfield publishes in top academic journals and also contributes op-eds to the New York
1:20.1	Times Harvard Business Review Wall Street Journal.
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