Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today with author Hal Hershfield in conversation with Daniel Pink

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Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today with author Hal Hershfield in conversation with Daniel Pink

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Based on over a decade of groundbreaking research, Hal Hershfield, Ph.D.’s new book Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today explains that, in our minds, our future selves often look like strangers. Many of us view the future as incredibly distant, making us more likely to opt for immediate gratification that disregards the health and wellbeing of ourselves in the years to come. People who can connect with their future selves, however, are better able to balance living for today and planning for tomorrow. Your Future Self presents the science, describes the mental mistakes we make in thinking about the future, and gives us practical advice for imagining our best future so that we can make that a reality. Hershfield is a professor of marketing, behavioral decision-making, and psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he has won numerous awards for his teaching and research. His research on future selves has received widespread attention in outlets such as NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Hershfield’s research has been published in prestigious business, psychology, and general science academic journals, as well as in the Harvard Business Review, Scientific American, and Psychology Today. Hershfield will be in conversation with Daniel Pink (FAN ’18 and ’22), the author of several provocative, bestselling books about business, work, creativity, and behavior, including The Power of Regret; When; To Sell Is Human; Drive; and A Whole New Mind.