The Psychology Of Your Future Self, By Dan Gilbert

For this Ted Talk I chose the psychology of your future self by Dan Gilbert. In this Ted Talk Dan Gilbert discusses what he calls the “end of history illusion”. This being the idea that we think that the people who we are right now regardless of age is who we are going to remain being for the rest of our lives. The reason that Dan Gilbert believes that we think this is due to our fundamental misconception of the power of time. This misconception is also the reasoning behind why we make decisions that our future selves so often regret. Our decision making is derived from the perception that your rate of change slows over the human lifespan, which is not true. This lack of people believing that they will change drastically leads to them thinking …show more content…
Everyone does believe that the person they are will change less and less overtime. Especially teenagers. I believe that we are cursed with tunnel view. We only see the present, and for this reason we believe in the person that we have crafted ourselves to be in this day and do not think about how much we will be recrafted in the future. I found this Ted Talk even more relatable when Gilbert had created a study and asked 500 people how much money they would pay to see their favorite musician from 10 years ago and there favorite musician now 10 years later. People had said they would pay less for their favorite musician from the past because their preferences have changed, they have changes. I also found it very true when Dan Gilbert said that the reason people find it so difficult to think about themselves in the future is because it 's so easy to remember yourself 10 years ago, yet so difficult to imagine who were gonna be. Here Dan Gilbert had looked at the cognitive psychology of our brains another connection to psychology. How we remember and handle situations. Gilbert then said to not get the lack of imagination impact the likelihood of an