“Consider this scenario. You own shares in Company A. During the past year you considered switching to stock in Company B but decided against it. You now find that you would have been better off by 1200$ if you had… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share
We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share
Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to be happy.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy... But our temporal progeny are often thankless. We toil and sweat to give them just what we think they will like, and they quit their jobs, grow their hair, move… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share
“The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what they eye sees, but in… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
