Your Future Self

How to Get Lucky, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 5 August 2026. The book comes up at 2 hr 46 min in.

Annie Duke recommends this book by Hal Hirschfeld in the context of discussing future-self thinking and decision-making. She says Hirschfeld has done extensive work on mental time travel — imagining future versions of oneself — and uses it to argue that people can feel good about present choices by framing them as care for future selves, rather than needing to be depressed to become better decision-makers.

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