In this episode, we're joined by Hal Hershfield, Professor of Marketing, Behavioral Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and author of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Than Today.

This episode dives deep into understanding our future selves and how we relate to them, especially in professional contexts. We discuss how goal setting and future planning play a major role and how time travel plays into it. The conversation delves into present bias and procrastination, distinguishing between superficial planning and deep future planning. Hal shares how we get the concept of future selves wrong and also brings up external influences and affective forecasting. We also touch on balancing utility over time and the importance of giving focus to our present selves too. Finally, we discuss practical techniques to enhance our vision of our future selves and also highlight a few researchers in the field.

To learn more about Hal and his work:

Hal's website: https://www.halhershfield.com/
Hal's book: https://www.halhershfield.com/yourfutureself

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Balancing Your Present and Future in the Workplace with Hal Hershfield