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  • How to Make Tomorrow Better Today
  • By: Hal Hershfield
  • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Your Future Self

By: Hal Hershfield
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Few people would pass up the chance to travel through time and see what life will be like for our future selves. But while we want to envision the best possible future, why do some of us fail to make decisions that will truly make that a reality, while others succeed? Why do some of us choose steak over vegetables at dinner, waving off concerns of raising our cholesterol? Why do some splurge on luxury cars that we can't really afford, while others choose cheaper models and save more for the future? Why are so many of us so disconnected from our future selves?

In YOUR FUTURE SELF, Hal Hershfield reveals his groundbreaking research that shows that, in our minds, our future self often looks like a stranger. Many of us view the future as incredibly distant, making us more likely to opt for immediate gratification that disregards our health and wellbeing in the years to come. People who are able to connect with their future selves, however, are better able to balance living for today and planning for tomorrow. YOUR FUTURE SELF explains the science, describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future, and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so that we can make that a reality.

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©2023 Hal Hershfield (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK

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"A timely idea from one of today's leading behavioral scientists. Your Future Self delivers on its promise, showing you how and why mental time travel makes your tomorrow better today! What's more, this book is both personal and thoroughly grounded in the latest research, much of which Hershfield has pioneered himself." (Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit)

"Hershfield's entertaining and powerful book tells us how thinking about the future can change our behavior in the present-and help us grow into the people we eventually want to be." (Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset)

"As a pioneering psychologist, Hal Hershfield's research has changed how I think about the future, and he's about to do the same for you. His book offers a fascinating window into who you might become tomorrow-and how you can have more say in that evolution today. Your future self will be grateful that you read it." (Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking)

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Time Travelling for your future self

A unique take on the value of setting goals to improve yourself.

Interesting research, results and reasons to imply strategies and hacks to start working on ensuring more opportunities and possibilities of being and becoming who you want to be.

Time Travelling is the language used as a metaphor to describe many of the exercises explained to help prove the point of 'now is the time' to start working on yourself.

I have no doughty that I will start writing a letter to my future self - a key exercise.

I definitely recommend listening to this book. I listened on double speed and th e narrator speaks very slowly.

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Fabulous must read practical & uplifting

I will read this again and again

Time travel and creating a better future for our selves

Hal Hershfield has written a fascinating and easy to apply book on how to prepare and act today for a better future self living a better life.

Easy to listen to and amusing and uplifting. I finished it in a day.

Life changing and highly recommended 🙏

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