“The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at… — 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… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“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
The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
