The Good Wolf Project- Know Your Brain. Live Better.

On a recent evening at the Harvard Club of New York, an audience of more than 60 educators, community leaders, and philanthropic supporters gathered to celebrate a deceptively simple idea: that understanding how our brains work can transform the way we live.

The occasion, hosted by Board of Trustees members Boris Rauls and his wife, Heike, and Anthony (Tony) Venezia and his wife, Marie, was the launch of Good Wolf 2.0, the strategic vision for the future of The Good Wolf Project.

Speaking of the impact of Good Wolf's transformational educational approach on people's lives, founder John Delfs, MD a Harvard Medical School–trained neuroscientist and physician, called it "the most thrilling thing I have ever experienced."

Read the full journal entry: https://goodwolf.org/web/2026/01/10/20251113-event

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✨ Good Wolf has had an amazing year.

We’re so grateful for all the support we’ve received! Thank you to everyone who has followed and contributed to our mission.

Looking ahead, we’re excited to continue our work, applying insights from brain science, to empower seniors and youth in the new year.

💬 Hear directly from participants about how the Good Wolf workshops have made a difference in their lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-0kE-cwts

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Why our brains are not primed to consider the future.

🧠 We find it difficult to trust in future rewards.

For Sangil “Arthur” Lee, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where he’s a postdoc, this makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. “You might not survive until next winter, so there is some inherent trade off that you need to make, which is not only specific for humans, but also for animals." Economists call this the “catastrophe” or “hazard” rate.

🧠 When we think about what hasn’t yet happened, it tends to be abstract. Things right now, on the other hand, we think of in more tangible terms.

Several behavioral studies have supported the idea that what we cannot clearly imagine, we value less. We tend to have more intense emotional feelings about things we can imagine vividly.

🧠 One way we can fight this bias is by deliberately trying to imagine the future more vividly, rather than just using our default imagination.

Here is where we can get some support from the arts—science-fiction movies and vividly written novels provide us with images that seed our imagination, which we can use to make possible futures more concrete.

https://nautil.us/why-your-brain-isnt-into-the-future-245128/

📚 Thanks to Jim Davies via Nautilus Magazine

Why Your Brain Isn't Into the Future What you can’t imagine clearly, you value less.