Why do people always want to write letters to past selves? I’d rather consult them. I have more data but tbf they were smarter.
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Thinking of writing letters to my future self, like 10/15/20y from now. Or record videos. Anyone tried this? Pretty sure I’m smarter than they’re going to be. Psychohistory myself and leave seldon vault messages in ELI5 language.
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I started writing letters to my son when he was a few days old, continued it for all my kids, but also got to see how I had changed over that time.
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I've noticed a lot of FinTwiters having babies. Congratulations! I'd like to recommend you get into a habit early, and start writing letters to them that you can give them at some milestone, like turning 21.
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I call them journals. I started them when I was 6. It is good to have proof of what I thought and felt at that moment in time.
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Is diary not all letters to future self?
I write extensively when I’m making major decisions so my future self will remember the context and the reasoning (and be kinder to herself)!
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You may be smarter, they'll be wiser. Sounds cliche, but something truly novel happens ~50. Mostly: firsthand experience of how people now old enough to make decisions that matter are blithely unaware of crucial recent history.
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At 20, I wrote letters to my 30 and 40 year old selves and they're sitting sealed in envelopes. Wrote them just to see how my desires and state of mind morph over time.
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All the time. But the good structural one is a note laid on top of christmas decorations every year. You get to read it about a month before you write the next one.









