THE DIGITAL COPY IS TITLED: HOW TO PLAN FOR YOUR FUTURE SELF
“Getting to know yourself and your future self can put you on a path
towards contentment”
By: John D. Mayer
Published: Scientific
American Mind; March / April 2014
Level of Difficulty:
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BEFORE YOU READ
·
Many people view success in life as ‘a job,
marriage, a house, kids, a summer house, a car and private education for the
kids’. Do you agree? Why or why not?
·
Following your dreams is often described as
childish, unrealistic and immature. Do you agree? Why or why not?
·
What does success in life mean to you? How do
you plan to achieve your goals?
·
How realistic do you think your goals are?
QUESTIONS
1. Carpe
diem, or seize the moment, is a saying that upholds the value of living in the
moment. What down side of such
anattitude did Zimbardo and boyd discover? Such people……………
2. What
enables us to wish to plan for the future? The fact that ………………………………………………
3. The
advantage of personal intelligence is best summarized as follows: personal
intelligence…
4. The
lower the personal intelligence, the ………………. The chance of future contentment
because such people can’t……………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. Complete the following
sentence based on what you have read in the section titled "Life's Dream": The greater the correlation between… ………………and……………………the more likely
we are to have a happy and statisfying future life. This proves that dreaming
alone does not lead to future success.
7. According
to the experiment carried out by E. Tory Higgins, greater misery and
disillusionment results from a greater gap between both …………………and.........................
8. The
advantage of the above state is that it is ……………………………………………………………………….
9. According
to Levinson’s study, the function of a dream is to……………………………………………….
10. Significant
changes in life direction later in life only take place provided there
is…………………
11. The
compass designed by Schwartz and the international team of researchers can help
people determine…………………………………and then bring our personal intelligence to bear
so as to…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
12. From
Helson and Strivastova’s study, we can deduce that……………………………had a high level
of personal intelligence and are likely better at recognizing their personal
potential.
13. What
double function does the last sentence of the paragraph beginning “Of course”
serve?
14. Study
the two examples below carefully:
·
On graduation from university, a young man gets
a job, marries at 28, has two kids, buys
a car and a summer house, works hard to put his kids through private school
because this is expected of him.
·
On graduation, his classmate his talents lie in
writing for a profession and not in the private sector. He works, collects
money, goes abroad to do graduate work, settles and works abroad.
Who will reap more material reward? Who will be happier? Why?
15. Look
back at the second example in question 14. The happiness of the second example
depends on his ability to ………………………………………………………………………………………………
16. Look
back at the examples in question 14. The reason why the first person
experiences less happiness than he otherwise could is that the path he took in
life was ……………………………
17. Chrirtensen
describes a reunion. What is the reason for what Christensen observes?
WRITING TASK
Write
an essay in which you describe how best to achieve both happiness and
fulfillment in life. Use the information in the text and your own experience.
THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW KEY AND TEACHER’S
NOTES
This superb text out of Scientific American
Mind sheds new light on the issues of what success in life really means, who
reaps the most material rewards, who experiences greater fulfillment and
happiness. The truisms it comes up with are all suported by scientific
experiments and are deep down, stuff we know to be true. The whole activity
should lead to a good essay task.
1. Are more
likely to engage in risky behavior
2. Many
of us really identify with our future selves; OR, we care for the individual we
will become.
3. Serves
as an inner guidance system that helps us navigate the people and situations we
encounter to attain our goals. Note to the student: the rest is not necessaary.
4. Lower;
imagine a future self that is realistic
5. The current self and the future self
Connected to their later selves; OR, feel connected to who they would become
Connected to their later selves; OR, feel connected to who they would become
6. Both their ought to selves and their actual selves and their actual selves and their ideal selves
7. Their
actual selves and their ideal selves
8. Those negative selves are a heads up signal alerting us…
8. Crystalize
motives moving forward
19. A sense of betrayal or compromise of the dream
10 Their
inner compass points; make sure we are proceeding in tune with what we most
care about.
11. Achievers
12. It
is the concluding statement and it best summarizes the paragraph
13. The
first; the second; because happiness derives from the goodness of fit between
the life structure and the self.
14. Choose
aims which are consistent with one another and to avoid contradicting pursuits
as much as possible
15. Not
autonomous; OR, was being imposed from outside
16. These
people lost sight of their life purpose and failed to prioritize their
relationships.
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