Ari Wallach

We want to start hunting larger and larger game. We're no longer reactive. So we want to go after that game. It's not a foregone conclusion that when we go after something, it's going to do what we want it to do. We have to start thinking about different scenarios.

So that first kind of mental time travel is really coming from our desire for more protein to exist and to grow the group and really to feed the super energy intensive thing called the human brain. That's where mental time travel starts. And hippocampus takes different memories of different ways we've hunted and been successful in the past or not successful and starts to put together scenarios.

So that first kind of mental time travel is really coming from our desire for more protein to exist and to grow the group and really to feed the super energy intensive thing called the human brain. That's where mental time travel starts. And hippocampus takes different memories of different ways we've hunted and been successful in the past or not successful and starts to put together scenarios.

So that first kind of mental time travel is really coming from our desire for more protein to exist and to grow the group and really to feed the super energy intensive thing called the human brain. That's where mental time travel starts. And hippocampus takes different memories of different ways we've hunted and been successful in the past or not successful and starts to put together scenarios.

And I immediately pick up the phone to see, and you've covered this before, what's that new information? What is it that I have to react to? So we're working on two 300,000-year-old hardware. At the same time, we have a cultural substrate that is, for lack of better words, has hacked into that older part of us to make us, A, want that immediate gratification, and B,

And I immediately pick up the phone to see, and you've covered this before, what's that new information? What is it that I have to react to? So we're working on two 300,000-year-old hardware. At the same time, we have a cultural substrate that is, for lack of better words, has hacked into that older part of us to make us, A, want that immediate gratification, and B,

And I immediately pick up the phone to see, and you've covered this before, what's that new information? What is it that I have to react to? So we're working on two 300,000-year-old hardware. At the same time, we have a cultural substrate that is, for lack of better words, has hacked into that older part of us to make us, A, want that immediate gratification, and B,

force us to now react in a way where that mental time travel has closed that temporal horizon. We're now training ourselves no longer to think about the far future, but to actually think about the immediate present. And I don't mean present in a Buddhist way. I mean presentism as in a hall of mirrors. There is no past. There is no future. There's only this moment.

force us to now react in a way where that mental time travel has closed that temporal horizon. We're now training ourselves no longer to think about the far future, but to actually think about the immediate present. And I don't mean present in a Buddhist way. I mean presentism as in a hall of mirrors. There is no past. There is no future. There's only this moment.

force us to now react in a way where that mental time travel has closed that temporal horizon. We're now training ourselves no longer to think about the far future, but to actually think about the immediate present. And I don't mean present in a Buddhist way. I mean presentism as in a hall of mirrors. There is no past. There is no future. There's only this moment.

And so it's becoming extremely difficult for us as individuals, as societies, as civilization to think about the long term in the way that you and I may have done 150,000 years ago, because winter was coming. And we would start thinking, where are we going to move our family and our tribe or our clan? And we would go to warmer climates. We don't even do that anymore, right?

And so it's becoming extremely difficult for us as individuals, as societies, as civilization to think about the long term in the way that you and I may have done 150,000 years ago, because winter was coming. And we would start thinking, where are we going to move our family and our tribe or our clan? And we would go to warmer climates. We don't even do that anymore, right?

And so it's becoming extremely difficult for us as individuals, as societies, as civilization to think about the long term in the way that you and I may have done 150,000 years ago, because winter was coming. And we would start thinking, where are we going to move our family and our tribe or our clan? And we would go to warmer climates. We don't even do that anymore, right?

We're so in this moment that it's becoming extremely difficult for us to break out of this presentist moment.

We're so in this moment that it's becoming extremely difficult for us to break out of this presentist moment.

We're so in this moment that it's becoming extremely difficult for us to break out of this presentist moment.

You need to manage the day to day. There are people like me who are full time futures. We tend to be very anxious because what we tend to do is think more in the future and aren't as present as we should be. That being said. If 90% of your day is going about your day dealing with what's right in front of you, that's great. What I'm advocating for is what I call kind of transgenerational empathy.

You need to manage the day to day. There are people like me who are full time futures. We tend to be very anxious because what we tend to do is think more in the future and aren't as present as we should be. That being said. If 90% of your day is going about your day dealing with what's right in front of you, that's great. What I'm advocating for is what I call kind of transgenerational empathy.

You need to manage the day to day. There are people like me who are full time futures. We tend to be very anxious because what we tend to do is think more in the future and aren't as present as we should be. That being said. If 90% of your day is going about your day dealing with what's right in front of you, that's great. What I'm advocating for is what I call kind of transgenerational empathy.

It's a mouthful. So we know empathy. You've had guests on that. Transgenerational empathy first and foremost starts with empathy and compassion for yourself. Then we move into empathy for those who came before, which then allows us to build empathy for the future, future, future Ari, future, future Andy, but then future generations. And we can get into how to do that.