Meet Your 80-Year-Old Self: It Motivates Better Health Choices - Zora Benhamou

Can you picture yourself at 80? Like, really picture her? Most of us can't. And the research says that's exactly why we don't take great care of her.

We cover:

My ChatGPT experiment and why it hit me so hard

The "mother's age milestone" and what losing a parent young can you feel

The research on how connecting with your future self changes your choices

The window of opportunity that only happens in menopause

What AI can't do for you, and what matters most for your future self

Meet Your 80-Year-Old Self Guide: https://freebie.hackmyage.com/your-80-year-old-self

Resources:

Hershfield et al. (2011). Increasing saving behavior through age-progressed renderings of the future self. Journal of Marketing Research. DOI

Hershfield (2011). Future self-continuity: how conceptions of the future self transform intertemporal choice. Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences. DOI

Rutchick, Slepian, Reyes, Pleskus, Hershfield (2018). Future self-continuity is associated with improved health and increases exercise behavior. J Exp Psychol Applied. DOI