Dr. David Eagleman

take her money, her cash, and freeze it in a block of ice in the freezer so that she couldn't spend the money until she really needed it.

Exactly.

Because you care about your future self and you want future Andrew to do the right thing.

So there are a million ways to make these Ulysses contracts.

I've been studying this for years and I... Yeah, so I decided to write a book on this because the way that we deal with our future selves is just this fascinating thing because...

Your future self is a little different than who you are now.

But with time, we come to understand that our future self will behave badly in different situations.

And so we just try to cut those off.

I'll give a couple examples.

One is it's super useful to...

get social pressure involved.

So, for example, I'm guessing you and I both do this, you know, going to the gym is something we enjoy, but it's really useful to have a buddy where you say, hey, I'll meet you at the gym at 8 tomorrow morning, and then even if you wake up, you're a little tired, your shoulder hurts or whatever, you got to go because he's going to be there.

So getting social pressure involved is a good idea.

I found this thing where it's a boot camp where you sign up for it, and every morning –

You know, go jogging together, do pushups, whatever.

But if you don't show up, the group jogs to your house and they stand on your front lawn and they do jumping jacks and they scream your name until you come out.

Amazing.

Yeah.

It's really good to get that, to commit to that sort of thing so that you're really going to show up.

There are ways to do this where you put money on the line.