Become a DIY Futurist
A program designed to help individuals connect with their future ambitions by leveraging techniques from futurism and psychology. This program uses mental time travel, mindful decision-making, and strategies to overcome the Mental Episodic Overestimation (MEO) effect to help you build a compelling vision of your future self and proactively shape your future.
Program Modules
Recalling the Past: Learning from Experience
Actively reflect on past experiences to identify patterns, successes, and challenges to inform future goals. This activity uses the principle that the future is often an extension of the past, helping you identify recurring themes and leverage past learnings.
Recalling the Past: Learning from Experience
Daily 7xActively reflect on past experiences to identify patterns, successes, and challenges to inform future goals. This activity uses the principle that the future is often an extension of the past, helping you identify recurring themes and leverage past learnings.
“However far into the future you look, you first look back twice as far.”
Imagining the Future: Overcoming the MEO Effect
Create vivid and detailed visions of your future self to overcome the MEO effect (Mental Episodic Overestimation), making distant goals feel more tangible and motivating. Engage all five senses to create a rich and compelling vision.
Imagining the Future: Overcoming the MEO Effect
Weekly 4xCreate vivid and detailed visions of your future self to overcome the MEO effect (Mental Episodic Overestimation), making distant goals feel more tangible and motivating. Engage all five senses to create a rich and compelling vision.
“To create that compelling motivating vision of the future you need… detail.”
Staying Present: Mindful Decision-Making
Develop strategies to minimize distractions and make mindful decisions in the present moment, aligning your daily choices with your long-term goals. This focuses on reducing the impact of 'hot stimuli' and strengthening your ability to make reasoned choices.
Staying Present: Mindful Decision-Making
Daily 7xDevelop strategies to minimize distractions and make mindful decisions in the present moment, aligning your daily choices with your long-term goals. This focuses on reducing the impact of 'hot stimuli' and strengthening your ability to make reasoned choices.
“The biggest challenges we face come from hot stimuli (anger, fear, lust).”
What You'll Accomplish
- Understand the principles of mental time travel and its application to goal setting.
- Develop skills to overcome the MEO effect and create motivating visions of the future.
- Learn strategies to minimize distractions, make mindful decisions, and resist impulsive behaviors.
- Create a compelling and detailed vision of your future self, aligning daily actions with long-term aspirations.
- Identify and utilize effective habit formation strategies for consistent progress.
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