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book2023

Your Future Self

Disciplines:
psychology
philosophy/time
psychology/decision-making
future

Summary

Hal Hershfield's 2023 guide to connecting with your future self — synthesizing temporal psychology research to help readers make better long-term decisions by developing a more vivid relationship with who they will become.

Core Contribution

Creates the future self connection guide — Your Future Self synthesizes the temporal psychology research (aged avatars, future self-continuity, time discounting) into practical guidance for improving long-term decision-making by developing emotional connection to future outcomes.

Historical Influences

Future self-continuity research Behavioral economics

Intellectual Lineage

Hal Hershfield Little, Brown Spark

Allied Works

Die With Zero Four Thousand Weeks

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Behavioral finance and retirement policy

Intellectual Posterity

Your Future Self

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