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Krznaric, a philosopher at Oxford’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, argues that the single greatest barrier to being the person you want to be is short-term thinking. We have become, as he puts it, temporally impoverished, unable to imagine beyond the next news cycle or paycheque. He draws on Stoic philosophy, cathedral builders, and Japanese concepts of generational time to rebuild the reader’s relationship with the future. An unusual, bracing book that reframes personal growth as an ethical question, not a lifestyle one, and offers six practical ways to think longer.