The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2025-11-20 · 87 min · 14,965 words

This One Study Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life: The Cornell Legacy Project

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Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. If you could go back in time and spend just a few minutes with your younger self, let's say your 15-year-old, your 20, your 30-year-old self, I bet you would know exactly what you'd say. Because you have important advice to give. You have some valuable lessons that you would share. You would say, look, here's exactly what you should do right now.

But hear me out, hear me out. Wouldn't it be amazing if every once in a while you could time travel forward. to the future and get advice from the older, wiser version of you. Wouldn't you love to find out what changes you could make in your life right now while you still have the chance? Psst.

I got a little secret for you. You can. Because today, You and I are hopping in a time machine and going to the future to hear the life lessons that every single 90-year-old wishes they knew when they were your age. That's what we're doing.

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