Neuro-Discipline: Everyday Neuroscience for Self-Discipline, Focus, and Defeating Your Brain’s Impulsive and Distracted Nature (Live a Disciplined Life Book 6)

by Peter Hollins

The better we’re able to visualize and interact with our future self, the better we get at taking good care of it. This is because by visualizing and connecting with our future self, we feel the reality of the upcoming circumstances and recognize how the actions of our present self are bound to create a real impact on our future self. We are faced with stark reminders that our actions aren’t just taken in a vacuum and that most of them do have consequences. By paying attention to our future selves, we start to see how a lack of self-discipline now may be good for our present self but disastrous for our future self. As we empathize with the fate of our future self and the kind of life it will have to live through if we keep our negative habits up (e.g., sleepless nights trying to get caught up with work, turning in haphazardly done output, having to deal with career failures), we begin to feel motivated to change our present ways to be better.