In his new book, Your Future Self: How to Make a Better Tomorrow, Today, Hal Hershfield illustrates the ways in which insights from the psychology of relationships can be applied to your future self. Building off of Art and Elaine Aron’s concept of “inclusion in the self,” Hershfield and his colleagues found across several studies... Continue Reading →
Performing a “Premortem” on your Current Life Path
I recently came across the idea of a premortem when reading Steven Johnson's wonderful book, Farsighted. Cognitive scientist Gary Klein coined the term in a 2007 Harvard Business Review article. Drawing on research that found that imaging that an event has already occurred increases the ability to identify future outcomes, Klein and his colleagues developed... Continue Reading →