Cases Quote by Daniel Gilbert

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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 tomorrows that…

— Daniel Gilbert

“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