You Vs. Your Future Podcast
Writing Assignment #1 - You vs. Your future
Podcast Summary
The podcast talks about us as human beings, and how we are one of the few creatures to understand the concept of self, which includes the ability to interpret our experiences. We are also capable of learning from experiences we have never had, based off of our assumptions/imagination. Our assumptions at times are not solely based off of our own thinking, but rather off of other’s similar experiences/thoughts on the matter, which we integrate into our conclusion in the end. Moreover, we still do not predict the future accurately. The podcast further states how once our minds get into imagining the future, we still tend to leave out important details. The podcast also states, that we don’t consider how much we will change in the future, therefore …show more content…
Towards the end of the interview, it was stated that making the human imagination/prediction better (more accurate) is not possible, this was their conclusion after 15 years of research. Although all hope is not lost, the best way to alleviate this problem is by asking individuals who are part of one’s future how they feel, for they have made it (they have achieved the said goal). The measure of their happiness is an acceptable guide to measure our own happiness in the future, although this is not usually the case since we tend to trust our own judgement, rather than information provided from other people. We experience a concept called the “Illusion of Diversity”, where we think that others experiences tell us only a fraction of what we could experience, since we are different individuals. In addition, we
Podcast Summary
The podcast talks about us as human beings, and how we are one of the few creatures to understand the concept of self, which includes the ability to interpret our experiences. We are also capable of learning from experiences we have never had, based off of our assumptions/imagination. Our assumptions at times are not solely based off of our own thinking, but rather off of other’s similar experiences/thoughts on the matter, which we integrate into our conclusion in the end. Moreover, we still do not predict the future accurately. The podcast further states how once our minds get into imagining the future, we still tend to leave out important details. The podcast also states, that we don’t consider how much we will change in the future, therefore …show more content…
Towards the end of the interview, it was stated that making the human imagination/prediction better (more accurate) is not possible, this was their conclusion after 15 years of research. Although all hope is not lost, the best way to alleviate this problem is by asking individuals who are part of one’s future how they feel, for they have made it (they have achieved the said goal). The measure of their happiness is an acceptable guide to measure our own happiness in the future, although this is not usually the case since we tend to trust our own judgement, rather than information provided from other people. We experience a concept called the “Illusion of Diversity”, where we think that others experiences tell us only a fraction of what we could experience, since we are different individuals. In addition, we