Bina Venkataraman examines why humans consistently sacrifice long-term wellbeing for short-term rewards and how individuals, communities, and institutions can overcome this tendency. Drawing on psychology, economics, evolutionary biology, and case studies from around the world, she identifies the cognitive biases that make the future feel abstract and the social structures that compound individual myopia. Venkataraman profiles people and organizations that successfully plan for distant time horizons: Japanese businesses that operate on century-long plans, communities that preserve resources for future generations, families that transmit values across decades. She examines how imagination, social bonds, and institutional design can extend our effective time horizons. The book addresses climate change, financial planning, infrastructure maintenance, and personal health decisions, showing how the same underlying dynamics produce short-sighted choices across domains. Venkataraman, who served as senior climate change advisor in the Obama administration and taught at MIT, combines academic rigor with narrative accessibility, using stories to illustrate research findings. Her proposed solutions operate at multiple scales—individual habits, organizational practices, policy design—recognizing that both personal and structural changes are necessary. Readers will gain both understanding of why long-term thinking is difficult and practical tools for extending their own and their institutions' time horizons. In an era of accelerating change and compounding crises, this book offers a framework for thinking about tomorrow.