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(#1) Elise’s Top Ten: The psychology of your future self | Dan Gilbert

podcast September 20, 2025


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“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the “end of history illusion,” where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we’ll be for the rest of time. Hint: that’s not the case.

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