You don't actually know what your future self wants | Shankar Vedantam

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

"You are constantly becoming a new person," says journalist Shankar Vedantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the "illusion of continuity" -- the belief that our future selves will share the same views, perspectives and hopes as our current selves -- and shows how we can more proactively craft the people we are to become.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.8	Here's a question.
0:08.8	Do we know what we really want?
0:11.7	Shankar Fadantum says we can find more clarity on that if we better understand our future
0:17.4	selves.
0:18.4	It is talk from Ted 2022.
0:20.3	The journalist and podcast host explained something called the illusion of continuity and
0:25.1	how it has profound impacts on the way we think and the way we live.
0:29.9	That's after a quick sponsor message.
0:59.9	Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you listen.
1:04.8	When I was 12 years old, I fractured my foot playing soccer.
1:10.1	I didn't tell my parents when I got home that night because the next day, my dad was
1:14.6	taking me to see a movie, a soccer movie.
1:18.5	I worried that if I told my parents about the foot, they would take me to see a doctor.
1:23.5	I didn't want to see a doctor.
1:25.1	I wanted to see the movie.
1:27.7	The next morning, my dad goes, it's nice out.
1:31.4	Why don't we walk to the theater?
1:34.8	It was a mile away.
1:37.2	As we go, he says, why are you limping?
1:40.1	I tell him I have something in my shoe.
1:43.2	The movie was spectacular.
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