Your Future Self is an important addition to self-help resources written by a renowned scientist and distinguished scholar eminently qualified on the topic of this book. In fact much of the research on the topic of envisioning and planning for the future self has been done by the author and his close colleagues. There is a comprehensive Notes section following the book with numerous source materials and references, which is pretty impressive.

I enjoyed the book and it gave me alot of food for thought. Hal Hershfield is showing us how we can better our future lives by becoming cognizant of, and making friends with, our "future self"; side-by-side with our present-day self. He provides a number of helpful strategies for this backed with lots of entertaining anecdotes. Many studies have been done on this subject and some of those are summarized herein. It seems like embracing this philosophy would lead to more positive outcomes and certainly ought to benefit an individual. ( )