Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today, and if you've listened before, welcome

back.

Most of us have something that we want to change in our lives, but there's a big difference

between making small incremental changes, which can of course be great, and really swinging

for the fences and embracing a big radical change.

Those big changes can feel really destabilizing, they can feel uncomfortable, but they are

often the things that really move the ball of our lives forward.

And that's the focus of today's conversation with Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

Ben is an organizational psychologist and the author of eight books, including personality

isn't permanent, willpower doesn't work, and his new book, 10X, is easier than 2X.

As a PhD student, Ben was the number one blogger on medium.com, and his posts were read

over a hundred million times.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Ben, that we talked a lot about how we can bring

our future self into the present moment, act from that future self, and use it to create

a radically different future from the present that we're living in right now.

Because we all have things, or at least I certainly have things, that I look back 10 years

into the past, and I go, wow, I really wish that I could go back to that moment in time,

and act from it incredibly differently, with the knowledge, with the skill that I have

these days.

And that's an opportunity that is truly available to us in this present moment, which is a really

cool thing to think about and to talk about, and we explored so much during this conversation.

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