David Brancaccio

I am going to become, I don't know, senior correspondent for future effects.

So we could have a little poll here.

Let's do it in a little bit.

What do you think the meta issue that underpins every other issue that ails us in America?

Some people would say, and depending on my mood, I would say...

education in America, or maybe you would say campaign finance.

You fix that, you fix so many other things.

I'm going to argue that our short-term thinking that humans are so good at doing is a key issue that underpins so much of what we're facing.

So I want to cover, and we've got pretty firm plans in place here,

To be the person who talks about and explores and gets expertise, is a funnel for expertise on decisions we make now.

that shape our longer-term future.

It could be personal finance.

We're awful at thinking more than two weeks ahead, aren't we?

It's called hyperbolic discounting, if there's any economists here.

It just looks all so hazy past about April 17th, doesn't it?

There are interesting remedies for hyperbolic discounting.

I may do a fun video series on ways to jog that loose.

Some of them are fun.

If you just sit down...

with your partner and talk about maybe a trip that you'd like to make in the future, could be next year, could be in five years, that actually primes, there's research about this, primes the brain.