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B.J. was one of many fellow inmates who had big plans for the future.
And for me, when I think about our future, and all of those problems that seem incredibly large, the scale is impossible, the urgency is there, Peers, Inc. provides the speed and scale and the innovation and the creativity that is going to answer these problems.
In other words, our fears make us think about the future.
And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that fears have in common with storytelling.
Once in a while, our fears can predict the future.
Read in the right way, our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
Not even sitting there reminiscing about the past or planning for the future.
We're investing in our future.
The ideal future I imagine is where we all have multiple identities, at least one of which is an artist.
Which is why that Ivy League degree and the Wall Street job and his bright shiny future meant so much to him.
But perhaps for me the core bit going into the future is this idea of taking your own stem cells, with your genes and your environment, and you print your own personal medicine.
During Taliban years, I remember there were times I would get so frustrated by our life and always being scared and not seeing a future.
"Kill me now, if you wish," he said, "but I will not ruin my daughter's future because of your old and backward ideas."
In fact, they're often the initial and convincing negotiators of a bright future for their daughters, but in the context of a society like in Afghanistan, we must have the support of men.
But when I am back in Afghanistan, when I see the students in my school and their parents who advocate for them, who encourage them, I see a promising future and lasting change.
Radical openness is still a distant future in the field of school education.
Those are the critical questions, and what we have learned from PISA is that, in high-performing education systems, the leaders have convinced their citizens to make choices that value education, their future, more than consumption today.
We hope to have opened the door for more such research in this direction, so the remaining unknown terrain will be charted in the future.
Science has the power to predict the future in many cases now.
That's a mistake that could literally cost us our future.
So for example, if I'm speaking in English, I have to speak grammatically differently if I'm talking about past rain, "It rained yesterday," current rain, "It is raining now," or future rain, "It will rain tomorrow."
And what that means is that every time you discuss the future, or any kind of a future event, grammatically you're forced to cleave that from the present and treat it as if it's something viscerally different.
Now suppose that that visceral difference makes you subtly dissociate the future from the present every time you speak.
If that's true and it makes the future feel like something more distant and more different from the present, that's going to make it harder to save.
If, on the other hand, you speak a futureless language, the present and the future, you speak about them identically.
If savings is current pain in exchange for future pleasure, smoking is just the opposite.
It's current pleasure in exchange for future pain.
My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.
Ultimately, the goal, once we understand how these subtle effects can change our decision making, we want to be able to provide people tools so that they can consciously make themselves better savers and more conscious investors in their own future.
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