Mindset and The Future

We spend 30 to 50 percent or our self-generated thoughts (what we think about without trying to concentrate) thinking about the distant future. We feel happy to think of our future as full of possibilities for improvement, and that we have some control realizing those possibilities.

In con...

As you prepare for the interview, the reporter asks these questions:

1. Who should we interview about your life?
2. What is the one thing you never thought you would do, but did it?
3. Where have you lived, learned, and experienced your greatest successes?
4. When did you d...

We are not very good at guessing how we'll feel in the future. In predicting how we will feel in the future, we commonly use the past experience as a guide.

But our brain favours the extreme and most recent events. We tend to focus on the main features of an event and les...