Daniel Gilbert Quotes

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• Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.
• The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return…
• Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune system.…
• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It…
• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty…
• We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.
• Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
• 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 quickly…
• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream;…
• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could…
• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed,…
• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If…
• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if…
• The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy…
• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells…
• 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 forth,…
• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary…
• People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
• Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or…

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