The End of History Illusion
#big-ideas
==The End of History Illusion is our tendency to underestimate how much change we will experience in the next 10 years.== We remember how much we changed over the last 10 years, but believe that our personal history has come to an end. We believe we are the person we were meant to become. We believe our personality, preferences, goals, and desires will stay the same. Psychologist Dan Gilbert says, at every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we're going to become, and then when we become those people, we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made. Because we believe we won't change, we overpay for our current preferences. We believe they are stable. This happens because it's easier to remember where we came from than it is to imagine who we will become.