Future You

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original broadcast date: June 16, 2023. Who will you be in 10 years? In 20 years? Envisioning how you will evolve is very hard. This hour, TED speakers share ideas on how to better plan for the future, while allowing for the unexpected. Guests include psychologist Hal Hershfield, journalist Shankar Vedantam, journalist Bina Venkataraman and philosopher Roman Krznaric.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manusche. And as we wrap up 2023 and get into 2024, I want to bring you an episode
0:07.6	that's one of my favorites from earlier this year, which seems particularly appropriate as we
0:13.0	think about who we want to be in the year to come. It's always a daunting question, right? How are we
0:20.3	going to improve ourselves, improve our lives,
0:23.8	maybe just be content with what we have? So this episode is called Future You. It seems like a
0:31.0	perfect way to kick off the new year. So happy New Year from everyone here at TED Radio Hour.
0:37.2	Thanks for being with us all year long.
0:40.4	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:44.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:47.1	Our job now is to dream big.
0:48.5	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:50.2	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:52.3	Around the world.
0:53.3	To understand who we are.
0:55.2	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
1:00.3	You just don't know what you're going to find.
1:02.2	Challenge you.
1:03.1	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
1:05.5	And even change you.
1:06.6	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
1:08.8	Yes.
1:09.7	Do you feel that way?
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