\u201cHuman beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they\u2019re finished.\u201d Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the \u201cend of history illusion,\u201d where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we\u2019ll be for the rest of time. Hint: that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n
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