Daniel Gilbert Quotes

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• To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.
• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
• Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?
• 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 movie…
• To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our eye looks for…
• My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do…
• The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
• Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
• Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they…
• Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.
• Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average…
• Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
• Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.
• If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is…
• If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.
• Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

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