Benjamin Hardy

The future that they want actually isn't genuinely intrinsically motivated.

And so for me, tapping into the game just helps me to stop worrying about the outside world as much, stop competing with other people.

And so in terms of future self, I guess I would say in simple terms, we all have a future self.

What the research shows is that most people, especially the older they get, they stop thinking about their future self very much.

Most people, probably 30 and above, assume that even their future self 10, 20, or 30 years from now is mostly gonna be the same person they are today.

So most people don't have huge imagination towards their future self.

What the research does show is that your future self is going to be a wildly different person than you think.

Even in five or 10 years from now,

It's going to be hard to fully predict who your future self will be.

But if you start imagining it, start thinking about it, and importantly, getting really connected to your future self, who you want to be in the future, you can then start using, obviously, your vision of your future self to guide and direct who you're going to be today.

And you can be extremely intentional about it.

And so from my standpoint, the best thing to do is get really clear and connected to your future self, who you want to be, get very specific about that, and then use that as...

I guess you could say the North Star for directing everything you're doing here and now.

And each and every day as you're moving forward, you're measuring yourself against where you were before.

You're measuring yourself backwards and you're always seeing that by increasingly living intentionally as your future self, you're always outgrowing your past self.

And I do this daily.

I mean, if I even look at where I was...

a week ago.

I am not the same person I was last week.

I've changed a lot.