Dr. Benjamin Hardy
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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And she says, well, I don't know where I'm going.
And so he says, then you can literally go any direction you want.
Because if you don't know where you want to go, if you don't have a destination in mind, then it literally doesn't matter what you do today.
And that's part of, I guess, what you would say is being connected to your future self is once you get specific about where you want to go, about what you want, then you can start to formulate pathways of getting there.
But if you have absolutely no direction, no destination, then it does not matter what you do here and now.
You're essentially rudderless.
I mean, your future self becomes the anchor and it becomes the compass to like the decisions you make here and now.
And that's actually literally what all the research shows now.
And by the way,
The Psychology Today magazine that just came out in September and October was all about future self and about the person you're going to be in the future because this topic is becoming so big in psychology and even in therapy.
Therapists are finding that there's really no way we can help someone change long-term without getting them connected to their future self because if they're not...
if they're not thinking about who they want to be, it's very hard to change without a goal or without a why.
Like that then just becomes behavior change, which is kind of willpower focused.
And you can't really sustain that without a direction.
And so, yeah, I would say it's very difficult to be intentional if you don't have a future self you're working towards.
So this was really interesting to me.
I was shocked when it happened because I was writing Be Your Future Self Now.
It was kind of, so I wrote a book called Personality Isn't Permanent and I did not know about the future self research, even though like I had already done a PhD.
it was still kind of a growing, they call it like a branch or a vein of research.
Like it was a topic I'd never really heard of and it was kind of small, but it was burgeoning, meaning it was growing.
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