The End of History Illusion

We can’t see our future selves

We can’t see our future selves

A friend of mine is a social entrepreneur. He loves his work and believes he will do it till the end of his life. I doubt that because I know that previously he was a system analyst, a startup founder, and a deputy CEO for a large state-owned enterprise. He hasn’t turned 35 but has pivoted his career at least three times, which makes me believe he will do it again. But when I tell him that, he only smiles, being sure that this time he has found his calling. He is under the End of History Illusion. And so are we all.

As I have already mentioned in one of my posts, we are inferior future thinkers because this skill was not evolutionary conditioned, and there is scientific proof. But in 2013, another article on this topic appeared. It was called The End of History Illusion, and it was based on research conducted by three scientists from Harvard. And it proves one more time that future thinking is not among humans’ strengths.

The illusion

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