Why We're Mean to Our Future Selves (LIVE from Boston)

为什么我们对未来的自己很刻薄(波士顿现场直播)

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

2023-05-08

40 分钟
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Who do we volunteer to run a gruelling half-marathon? Who do we expect to give up sugar, or quit drinking? Who do we demand clears out the garage in the middle of summer? Ourselves. Mean, right? Turns out we make demands on our future selves that our present selves would think are unrealistic or unreasonable. And the reason we do it is because our minds are really bad at anticipating the wants and needs we'll have in a week, a month, or a year from now. And that harms our happiness.  Talking before a live audience in Somerville, MA, Dr Laurie Santos and Harvard professor Jason Mitchell explore how we can be kinder to both our present and future selves.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Pushkin.

  • Hey, happiness lab listeners.

  • What you're about to hear will probably sound a little bit different than our usual episodes.

  • That's because I recorded this show not alone in my tiny podcast closet at home,

  • but in a huge auditorium packed with people.

  • This is so cool, everyone.

  • That's right.

  • You're about to hear our first ever happiness lab live.

  • The event was held early in April at the Arts and the Armory Theater in Somerville,

  • Massachusetts, just outside of Boston.

  • I'm a Massachusetts girl myself.

  • Grew up in New Bedford, just down the way.

  • New Bedford folks in the house.

  • The listeners who came to the event got to experience a top secret sneak preview of one of our upcoming seasons and had a chance to take part in a live Q&A after the show.

  • But what you're about to hear was the main event of the night.

  • I did a live interview all about a happiness topic that I struggle with a lot myself,

  • the question of how we can be nicer to our future selves.

  • The happiness we experience in the next few days, weeks,

  • and months often relies on the decisions that we make today.

  • But if you're like me, you may struggle with treating your future self as nicely as you should.