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Ben Hardy

Ben Hardy

Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist, bestselling author (10x Is Easier Than 2x, Personality Isn't Permanent), and co-founder of Scaling.com.

Jun 19, 2026

5:42
Let's talk about that.
5:44
Yeah, so I would say like the advanced... model of goal setting is first off the acknowledgement of time.
5:50
So like time itself isn't from a psychological standpoint, time isn't outside of you.
5:55
Like if I'm thinking about my future, I'm thinking about it in my head.
5:58
Right.
5:58
And so the future and the past are psychological tools.
6:02
Yes, they, and their primary objective, their primary purpose is to improve our present decision-making.

15 MINS LATER

21:20
Because then I could say, well, why don't I do a $500 million company in three years? And then all of a sudden you're going from an impossible goal to actually like that is where I'd start to be like, oh, that perhaps is a little bit delusion.

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