#transformative choices

“Some personal transformations might be extensive, but also predictable, perhaps because you’ve undergone a similar transformation in the past. But if a personally transformative experience is a radically new experience for you, it means that important features of your future self, the self that results from the personal transformation, are epistemically inaccessible to your current, inexperienced self. A radically new experience can fundamentally change your own point of view so much and so deeply that, before you’ve had that experience, you can’t know what it is going to be like to be you after the experience.”