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- Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
- So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
- Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
- When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
- Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But…
- Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers…
- Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that…
- The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just…
- Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person…
- Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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