You don’t actually know what your future self wants | Shankar Vedantam | TED Talk

Learn more about self-awareness and handling change with “You don’t actually know what your future self wants.” In this TED Talk, journalist Shankar Vedantam discusses how, though we are constantly becoming a new person as we age, we still have a hard time understanding that our perspectives and views will change when we picture the future. Vedantam calls this the illusion of continuity and explains how we can find the motivation to proactively craft the people we are to become. This is the ideal presentation for those looking to develop a greater understanding of the self, goal setting and emotional intelligence when it comes ourselves and each other in the present and the future.