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What you don't know about who you will become

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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.

Briefly describe Gilbert's experiment and how it brought him to believe that people underestimate the amount of change they will experience in their lifetimes.

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