Future You

TED Radio Hour

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Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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.

Original broadcast date: June 16, 2023

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.9	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.4	Do you feel that way?
0:31.2	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:37.2	I'm Manushe Zamoroti.
0:38.4	And today's show is about you, the future you, the one who will someday reap the benefits
0:46.1	or pay the price for what you do today.
0:49.7	And the question is, why is it so hard, at least for some of us, to be kind to our future selves?
0:57.5	It sounds like a relatively simple question, but it turns out to be a huge can of worms.
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