TED Reflection：The Psychology of your Future Self TED观后感：未来自我心理.docx

Dan Gilbert: The Psychology of your Future SelfDan Gilbert explained in a?/talks/dan_gilbert_you_are_always_changingmemorable TED talk?on how humans are constantly changing.Why do people look back at decisions that they regret? Dan looks at a misconception of time which we have turned into the person we are over time, but will stay as we are now into the future.People change less as time goes on. The older the person is, the less he or she changes. Dan asks people to predict how much they will change over the next decade and compares it to people of the same age who say how much they changed over the last decade. The finding was that people greatly underestimate how much they will change in the future.This same pattern can be seen in a number of things, their best friend, favorite vacation, favorite band, their personality traits, and their level of success in life. People expect their values right now will persist into the future, while in truth they will change.Dan suggests this is because it is much easier to remember who we were rather than imagine or predict what they will become. So we assume it will not happen as it is difficult. This leaves us with an illusion that right now is a special moment where we become the person we will always be. Human Beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished. The one constant in our life is change. Change is related to growth. Cardinal John Henry Newman once said, “To be human is to change. To be perfect is to have changed often.” Be willing to let go of present attitudes that sabotage you, no matter how comfortable you are with them. If you do not change, you will not see, hear, feel, know or go toward anything more than what you are now. In any way, you must change what is now in order to gain.?No matter what you think you are at present, you are always more than that.Your life is a work in progress. Always be on the lookout for ways to make changes. Each of us is frequently exposed to creative opport