Health You Can't See It, But You'll Be A Different Person In 10 Years

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No matter how old people are, they seem to believe that who they are today is essentially who they'll be tomorrow. That's according to fresh research that suggests that people generally fail to appreciate how much their personality and values will change in the years ahead — even though they recognize that they have changed in the past.

Daniel Gilbert, a psychology researcher at Harvard University who did this study with two colleagues, says that he's no exception to this rule.

"I have this deep sense that although I will physically age — I'll have even less hair than I do and probably a few more pounds — that by and large the core of me, my identity, my values, my personality, my deepest preferences, are not going to change from here on out," says Gilbert, who is 55.

He realized that this feeling was kind of odd, given that he knows he's changed in the past. He wondered if this feeling was an illusion, and if it was one that other people shared: "Is it really the case that we all think that development is a process that's brought us to this particular moment in time, but now we're pretty much done?"

 
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giv_me_rep said:
Once a cynic, always a cynic eh FireCat?
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Nah Well, there is a little cynic. at least not most of the time, but I try to fight it. LOL
Anyway, I prefer the "skeptic" version.moar than cynic.
 
How would you be different? Accname and Slapshot136 hmmm
 
How can you not expect to change in 10 years? These people are weird.
 
Slapshot136 said:
I will hopefully have a job and no longer be a college student, and Accname will take off his santa hat
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LOL But how different would you be "as a Person?" Well you know the.. psychology researcher "predict you would change"

Oh a butterfly? Watch out for the birds! @Accname
 
FireCat said:
LOL But how different would you be "as a Person?" Well you know the.. psychology researcher "predict you would change"
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hopefully wiser - with a long beard, somewhere in the Gandalf to Dumbledore range, although I suspect I might need to add a 0
 
Slapshot136 said:
with a long beard, somewhere in the Gandalf to Dumbledore range
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Hair colour and Varyne's profile picture is one thing. You can study them, do research and make reports. Maybe they'll change. Maybe they won't. But you CAN'T make research on peoples souls and personalities. That is dumb, that stuff is on a different level. It is like studying peoples thoughts and see if they changed when you scream to them and flash rainbow pictures of ponies and check if the love for their dead dog goes up or down on a scale feom 1-10 centimeters. It is stupid and cant be done properly.
 
iPeez said:
Hair colour and Varyne's profile picture is one thing. You can study them, do research and make reports. Maybe they'll change. Maybe they won't. But you CAN'T make research on peoples souls and personalities. That is dumb, that stuff is on a different level. It is like studying peoples thoughts and see if they changed when you scream to them and flash rainbow pictures of ponies and check if the love for their dead dog goes up or down on a scale feom 1-10 centimeters. It is stupid and cant be done properly.
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what??
 
Doing research on who people will be in 10 years is stupid.
 
So is most of psychology, but they do have a tendency to make somewhat accurate predictions.
 
I am too lazy to make any new arguments. Nor can I. Hands down everyone clap for Varyan!
 
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