Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

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Benjamin Hardy is an American organizational psychologist and coauthor of The Gap and The Gain and Who Not How.

The reader is challenged to discern the manner in which our future self would behave now and then act accordingly. Benjamin Hardy has laid out the groundwork and science so that you can not only know your Future Self intimately, but you can also transform your life.

Belief you have control over what you do, that your actions matter, and you can impact the results in your life. Ultimately, the reader is not merely inspired to think positively about the future or to simply imagine the future they desire. As an aficionado of self-help, I was excited about this book but there's really nothing new added here that's added to the genre. But, by the end some of the key actions were things like praying or saying you are the thing you want your future self to be. I understand his point most clearly from his paraphrase of a Seinfeld routine about staying up late: night guy doesn’t mind getting drunk and staying up until 4 a.

In my early 20s, I was wide-eyed, bushy-tailed, and visualizing the woo-woo thanks to the Law of Attraction books. Your contextual purpose is the most important thing you can focus on right now to bring about the overarching purpose. It's not only useful to see your Future-Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also completely accurate. Shifting our goals from fear-based, reactive, and short term to proactive, long term, and love-based is the path to a successful and happy life.To harness this power, you need to gain clarity through your imagination of your desired future state, and fully commit to this future. If more people would read this they would quit crying on a therapists couch about their past and start moving toward their brighter future. Definitely a book to flick through every year to keep yourself on track with who you said you wanted to be. Whatever results you are producing in your life right now is proof of what you’re actually committed to. Hardy's insights have prompted me to set intentional (and realistic) goals for 2024 and work towards creating a life that I will genuinely look back on and feel good about.

After discussing his financial goals, Hardy was advised to set up an automatic weekly payment to his investment account. You can be the bee who goes out looking for the flowers, or you can be the flower and have the bees come to you. I guess because I’ve read a lot of the source works this book was based on, it just feels like the same old stuff I’ve already heard a million times before. Imagining your future self with vividness and clarity has a radical pulling power to draw you to your dreams. The most fundamental threat to a person’s Future Self is not the loss of freedom but the absence of purpose and meaning.Thinking from the perspective of his future self, though, he realizes that he will have wanted to spend as much time with his kids as possible.

If fact, he strongly critiques James Clear for what Hardy sees as inconsistency in Clear's view on the polarity of planning and action, both of which are needed to ensure success. I'm not saying his life hasn't had difficulties, and I admire his accomplishments, but it's shortsighted to not acknowledge that being male, white, Christian, straight, middle class might afford access and privilege not available to others. Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review.

While almost everyone recognizes a major identity shift in the past ten years, few expect a similar shift in the coming ten years. Now that you have a feel for your future self and efficient systems and schedules directing you toward it, you’ll start to see momentum build. Refining your system will reduce decision fatigue, improve your time management, and free you up for deep work on the most important items. In Hardy’s case, he did this by setting up an automatic payment from his bank account to his investment account every Monday.