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Human Beings: Works In Progress, Never Finished – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1166

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Human Beings: Works In Progress, Never Finished – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1166 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1166 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma    Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Dan Gilbert Preamble Daniel Gilbert in his TED Talk of March 2014, which attracted over seven million views, made the following statement. “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.” This observation may feel unsettling, but it captures one of life’s deepest truths: we are never static. We often assume that who we are today, our beliefs, preferences, values, and even our sense of identity, is permanent. Yet, when we look back, we realize how muc...