{"id":5585,"date":"2017-04-26T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:02","slug":"why-thinking-about-the-future-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-thinking-about-the-future-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why thinking about the future matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2017\/04\/why_people_are_so_bad_at_thinking_about_the_future.html\">Jane McGonigal on why and how to think about the future<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some people regularly connect with their future selves, but a majority does not. And this matters, beyond the links between future thinking and greater self-control and pro-social behavior. Thinking about the five-, 10-, and 30-year future is essential to being an engaged citizen and creative problem-solver&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Make a list of things that you\u2019re interested in\u2014things like food, travel, cars, the city you live in, shoes, dogs, music, real estate. Then, at least once a week, do a google search for &#8220;the future of&#8221; one of the things on your list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane McGonigal on why and how to think about the future: Some people regularly connect with their future selves, but a majority does not. And this matters, beyond the links between future thinking and greater self-control and pro-social behavior. Thinking about the five-, 10-, and 30-year future is essential to being an engaged citizen and&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/why-thinking-about-the-future-matters\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,369,381],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-futurism","category-sustainability","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1s5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}