The Psychology of Your Future Self - Video by Dan Gilbert
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the 'end of history illusion,' where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.
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