Dan Gilbert in Podcasts

It pairs really well with this next talk from 2022 that I got to see live. I want to share it. It's from journalist and podcast host Shankar Vandantam. Shankar talks to us about what he calls a fallacy. The fallacy of thinking we can know who we're going to be and what we want in the future today. His talk offers a gorgeous perspective on the same questions Dan Gilbert explored in the first talk I shared. The notion that we think that we know what we want. But do we?

The idea that the person who we think we are today isn't the same as the person we're going to be five or ten years from now. This notion that our preferences and personalities aren't fixed, even though sometimes we think they are. Here's Dan.

So we're going to kick off this playlist by looking inward, which is where a lot of change begins. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert has given a few TED Talks over the years, all before my time as host of this show. But his 2014 talk, called The Psychology of Your Future Self, contains a concept I think about again and again, and I return to it when I offer advice to other people.