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Making Sense
There are three major kinds of sense-making that happen when you engage in mental time travel to your future:
- First, your brain has to do what cognitive scientists call “scene construction” — mentally building the future world.
- After scene construction, your brain starts to do what cognitive scientists call “opportunity detection.” Here, you look for ways to fulfil your needs and achieve your goals.
- Finally, as your brain works to transport you to the future, feelings will kick in.
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The Punchline: Those Feelings Are Real
Crucially, these are real feelings. Studies show that the emotions you experience during EFT can be just as psychologically powerful as emotions experienced in the present. This is one reason why many of us prefer to imagine best-case-scenario futures and avoid imagining the futu...
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Mental Time Travel
When the future seems largely unpredictable, is there anything you can do to prepare for it?
All you need to do is to tap into your imagination and envision all your potential futures - using "futures thinking."
Futures thinking is an incredibly useful, practical tool to prep...
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Episodic Future Thinking: Imagine
“Episodic future thinking” or EFT is often described as “mental time travel” — your brain is working to help you see and feel the future as clearly and vividly as if you were already there.
If you’re having difficulty imagining life 10 years from now, write down a description of what you im...
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The 10 Year Challenge
You’ve never been 10 years older than you are now, so your brain doesn’t know what to expect if you try to imagine. Plus, there’s so much opportunity for things to change in a decade — your body, relationships, life circumstances, physical environment.
Your brain intuitively grasps this unk...
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Mental time travel is a great decision-making tool — this is how to use it
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Sense of curiosity
Curiosity creates a longing to know more, do more and be more.
To have a successful life, you have to cultivate your sense of wonder and be curious about what the future might hold. Curiosity helps you see any situation as an opportunity for your advancement and learning.
Describing happiness and meaning
- Happiness has more to do with getting what you want and feeling good.
- Meaning has two major components: The cognitive processing component involves making sense of your experiences. The purpose component is motivat...
Brain Vomit Questions
Now, as you are constantly reading, be interactive with your brain and take out pen, paper, and vomit your thoughts subjectively about the following questions-
- Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.
- What steps you could ...
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