# The psychology of your future self

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2014
- Speaker: Dan Gilbert
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_the_psychology_of_your_future_self)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"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.

## Lectures

1. [The psychology of your future self](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dan_gilbert_the_psychology_of_your_future_self/a73306733b40), 7 min (TED's player)