Why I Have To Change

I just turned 41 this week. Looking back over this year, things have definitely changed my life quite a bit. I didn’t have this email newsletter or my Discord. I had about 35k subscribers on the YouTube channel compared to 113k today. It was a different world back then, and a couple of viral videos later, my life is pretty different. And I think I’ve matured a bit as well. But looking towards the future, like when I turn 42, I don’t feel like things will change so much. Maybe I’ll have 120k subscribers?

​Dan Gilbert, a psychologist at Harvard, has conducted many studies that show that when you ask people from 18 to 68 how much they have changed in the past ten years, their answers are always the same. They have changed enormously and in ways they couldn’t anticipate. However, when they look towards the next ten years, they always respond the same way: they don’t anticipate much change. This phenomenon is consistent no matter what age group you ask these questions to. People in their 50…