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The future begins with imagination.

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Editor’s note: What is a “target”? Whenever we refer to the word “goal”, what we think of in our minds is often what we achieve and how we achieve success. But in fact, what we are talking about is not what you want to achieve, but the version of 2.0 that you want to make yourself. This is the important point of the goal: a brand new you. How to complete this transition? How to present yourself in a brand new future version? This article is unconventional and proposes five strategies to help you imagine and realize the future you want. This article is from Medium, author Benjamin Hardy, original title “How to Become Your “Future Self”.

If you think that yourself and your future self will be like two different people, then you have a greater chance to make better decisions now. Why do I say that? According to a study by Dr. Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University, people are really not good at predicting their future. The reason is simple: remembering the past is much easier than imagining the future.

Many people simply don’t take the time to imagine the future. They think it’s a waste of time, or in their opinion, it seems like the situation after ten years is basically the same. We even mistakenly believe that after ten years, we are the same person as us. Gilbert and other research scholars call this phenomenon “The End of History Illusion”, specifically:

• We are aware that we have experienced some major changes in the past

• We see our current self as an evolutionary and final version

• We will take it for granted that in the future, we will almost remain in the same state

If you look back at yourself ten years ago, you will find some differences. Ten years ago, you may be in a different situation. Your goals and dreams may be completely different from the present. You may have different friends and different hobbies at the time. Of course, there are some things you are doing now that may still be exactly the same as ten years ago. This is undeniable.

As people age, the changes they see in each decade will gradually decrease. From the age of 15 to 25, you will find some huge changes. From 25 to 35 years oldYou may also see some major changes in this decade. But from 35 to 45 and the next decade, for most people, the speed of change is gradually slowing down.

Why is this happening? According to the results of the five major factors of personality, as people age, their acceptance of new experiences is getting lower and lower. In other words, they will no longer pursue freshness and change. They will no longer imagine a broader future. They will decide more according to the past and their own future. Their lives will become more and more. The more conventional and fixed.

Although following regular and fixed patterns contributes to long-term coherence, it can have a negative impact on the brain over time, because our brains need a fresh and challenging presence. That is to say, if we want to achieve rapid growth and progress, then we must weigh the impact of these two “contradictions” factors, we need routine routines to keep moving forward, but these routine routines need to be constantly updated and need to be challenged. On the basis of the self, it constantly surpasses the previous level. In this way, to pursue the achievements of the future, this is also the only way to build self-confidence. As stated by Strategy Coach founder Dan Sullivan: “Going forward beyond your current ability, this is where your personal confidence comes from.”

It is precisely because of this that we should envision a broader and better future for ourselves. Instead of treating ourselves as the “end” version of ourselves, it is time to change the future and the same concept. . Because the truth is not the case. No matter how hard you try, what your intentions are, you will be different from the present in the future. Change is inevitable, you can’t decide, but whether you achieve personal growth is something you can decide.

Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” So, ask yourself, how much imagination do you want to create yourself in your life? This article will explore five strategies to help you imagine and create a future you want:

1. Imagine what you want to be in after three years

“Who do you want to be, or what you want to achieve, the good wishes for these two issues are the most valuable assets you have. It is difficult to score without a clear goal.” Paul Arden

More and more psychological topics begin to take the difference between the current self and the future self as the research object. The research results show that:

• You and the future are really two different people

• Thinking yourself as a fundamentally different person from the present will allow you to think about how you can achieve this difference

It is precisely because of this that we need this kind of desire and embarrassment. What illusions and embarrassment do you have for the future? How specific is this kind of flaw? Without a good life for your future life, your life will become meaningless. The late psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston once said that humans need three things to feel happy: something to do,someone loves,has some expectation .

If you don’t have anything to look forward to, then you won’t work hard and take the initiative to get close to those expectations, then you can’t have happiness. If you can create new visions and build new ones for your life, then you will look at the present life based on these new ones. This kind of embarrassment and expectation will become a background for your life, and the background has changed. The meaning and possibility of life have changed accordingly.

Therefore, we first need to be clear about our vision and expectations for the future. Cameron Herold, author of Double Double, once said that you should have two clear visions, one about the individual and one about the profession. And in the process of setting up your vision, you don’t have to pay attention to how to achieve this vision, you just need to specifically imagine what you want to achieve in three years.

Get out of the calendar and mark a big X number today after three years.

• What will your life be like then?

• What do you look like?

• What is your environment like?

• What are the main people in your life and in your work team?

• Which type of customer do you work with?

• What is your overall life experience?

• What is your usual day of life?

• How much do you earn?

• What is important to you?

• Where is your focus?

The thing to remember is that your current task is not to determine how to implement them. Your first task now is to have a clear understanding of your vision. The clearer your vision, the more likely you are to perform and the easier it will be.

According to Herold, ideally, you should write down a specific five-page vision and share it with everyone. Why share it with others? The reasons are as follows: