You Don’t Actually Know What Your Future Self Wants | Shankar Vedantam | TED - YouTube Narrative arc and tone: → Intimate 【Hook/personal anecdote】: → Reflective 【Theme introduced】: → Cautionary 【Development through life narrative】: → Philosophical 【Moral/ethical pivot】: 【Philosophical framing】: → Practical. 【Implications/extrapolation】: 【Prescriptive resolution】: 【 Closing: Hopeful payoff 】 The story moves from anecdote to ethical case study to conceptual grounding to pragmatic advice, using personal detail and an exemplifying case (Rinkas) to make a general philosophical claim emotionally and practically consequential. 【Hook/personal anecdote】: When I was 12 years old, I fractured my foot playing soccer. I didn't tell my parents when I got home that night, because the next day, my dad was taking me to see a movie, a soccer movie. I worried that if I told my parents about the foot, they would take me to see a doctor. I didn't want to see a doctor, I wanted to see the movie....