The End of History Illusion

Video Source: TED Talk (March 2014).

Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert explains: "human beings are a work in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." We think we will always be as we are now, a phenomenon he calls, "the end of history illusion." The one thing you can rely on is that in ten years you will be a completely different person, and far more so than you can ever imagine now. The transcript is here.