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Your future self : how to make tomorrow better today / Hal Hershfield.
Lippincott Library - Business Trends BF697 .H464 2023
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hershfield, Hal, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self.
- Goal (Psychology).
- Decision making.
- Genre:
- Self-help publications.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2023.
- Summary:
- Discusses why people are disconnected from their future selves, frequently opting for immediate gratification and making decisions that fail to consider future health and well-being, and offers practical advice for balancing living for today with planning for tomorrow.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I The journey ahead : who are we as we travel through time? Are we the "same" over time?
- Is future me really ... me?
- Relationships with our future selves
- Part II Turbulence : understanding the mistakes we make as we move from now to later. Missing your flight
- Poor trip planning
- Packing the wrong clothes
- Part III The landing : solutions for smoothing the path between the present and the future. Making the future closer
- Staying the course
- Making the present better
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-273) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780316421256
- 0316421251
- OCLC:
- 1380360159
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