Andrew Huberman· PhD
the change occurs not when you receive the letter but when you actually write it because you're actually thinking in a way about future you in a way that you normally don't which is who's going to receive this letter where do I want them to be um and what I find more often than not is people come after me come come up to me afterwards and I go to write I'd never even thought who do I want to be in five or 10 years like what's that Arc of what I want to kind of connect to what am I optimizing four how do I make myself better in that way so I want I want to make sure people understand that if you can't look at a photo of yourself age the very least write a letter to your future self and what does the letter include dear Andy dear Ari and then whatever you want to put in right this is a onetoone private conversation with your future self what are your hopes what are your dreams what are your desires what are you afraid of what do you want to see happen because until you put out there uh you know you can't be it if you can't see it right you have to actually visualize what that is and putting in not not the negative but what you really want to see aspirationally in that letter now starts creating a a road map to getting there