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We are not just one ‘self’ in our lifetimes but have many future selves, all of whom are different to the person we are today. And the way we feel about our futures selves significantly affects the decisions we make today about our well-being in the future.

In YOUR FUTURE SELF, Hal Hershfield explores the best ways for us to interact with our future selves so that our lives right now can be improved and so that our hopes for the future can be achieved. Along the way, readers will come away with a better appreciation of what getting a tattoo reveals about our saving habits, what Brazil’s most notorious serial killer has in common with England’s most well-known philosopher, and why a doctor would voluntarily take a pill to give himself the mother of all hangovers. They’ll also better understand why they fail so often to get themselves to the gym in the morning, what causes them to stay up too late, why they are unable to save at the rate they want to, and why they do things that they know they will later regret. They’ll be able to better recognize what separates the person they are today from the person they want to be, and how they can narrow that gap.

YOUR FUTURE SELF is a journey to get to know the person you soon will be, and to learn about the consequential decisions you should be making now.