Daniel Gilbert

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…

— Daniel Gilbert

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move…

— Daniel Gilbert

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves…

— Daniel Gilbert

The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a…

— Daniel Gilbert

“As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with…

— Daniel Gilbert

Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing…

— Daniel Gilbert

“Despite the third word of the title, this is not an instruction manual that will tell you anything useful about how to…

— Daniel Gilbert

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We…

— Daniel Gilbert

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

— Daniel Gilbert

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

“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing…

— Daniel Gilbert

“The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what they eye sees,…

— Daniel Gilbert

The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune.…

— Daniel Gilbert

“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to…

— Daniel Gilbert

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use…

— Daniel Gilbert

“Consider this scenario. You own shares in Company A. During the past year you considered switching to stock in Company B but…

— Daniel Gilbert

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and…

— Daniel Gilbert

“Best offense is the one that fails to trigger the best defense.”

— Daniel Gilbert

Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is…

— Daniel Gilbert

Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

— Daniel Gilbert

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

— Daniel Gilbert

What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in…

— Daniel Gilbert

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of…

— Daniel Gilbert

“We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.”

— Daniel Gilbert

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting…

— Daniel Gilbert