Trusting your future self creates a safety net for taking risks
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone discusses his 'Future Biz' mental framework with Harry Stebbings, explaining how relying on his future self to solve mistakes enabled him to overcome fear of failure.
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“Future biz will get current biz out of whatever jam he's getting himself into. And I guess it was kind of an excuse to do crazy things because I did sort of say out loud that, well, no matter what I do here, if it doesn't work, my future self will figure out how to make everything right again. And so it was almost like having a safety net without having a safety net. I sort of tricked myself into thinking, It doesn't matter what happens here, because your future self will take care of it, so go ahead and take this crazy risk, or do this thing that doesn't, in the short term, look like it helps you at all, but it's something you can try, because you'll be okay, and I think that in a weird way, it helped me do things that I might not have done if I was worried about trying to save money, or save face, or, you know, reputation, or something like that.”
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