Why is it so hard for our brains to plan for the future?
Who will you be in 10 years? In 20 years? Envisioning how you will evolve is very hard. This hour, TED speakers share ideas on how to better plan for the future, while allowing for the unexpected.
Guests include psychologist Hal Hershfield, journalist Shankar Vedantam, journalist Bina Venkataraman and philosopher Roman Krznaric.
This episode was produced by Andrea Gutierrez, Rachel Faulkner White, Laine Kaplan-Levenson and Fiona Geiran. It was edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour and Manoush Zomorodi. Our production staff at NPR also includes Matthew Cloutier, James Delahoussaye, Harsha Nahata and Katie Monteleone. Beth Donovan is our executive producer. Our engineer is Ted Mebane.
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