Connecting with an Image of Your Future Self

Exercise - Close your eyes and imagine you're sitting across from yourself in 20 years. How might that change the decisions you make today? 

Yale professor Laurie Santos suggests upgrading this exercise by generating an AI image of yourself in the future and using it to envision talking to your future self. 

"We often perspective-take on our future self quite poorly . . . but Hal [Hershfield's] research has found that just seeing a picture of your future self can bring [the idea] more into view. It helps with that process of trying to figure out what [the future you] would really want."