To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend. Daniel Gilbert More Quotes by Daniel Gilbert More Quotes From Daniel Gilbert The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices. Daniel Gilbert causes choices judging The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist? Daniel Gilbert fate decision hands 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 an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer? Daniel Gilbert important forever memories 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. Cut the stress-more yoga, less road rage-and you'll cut your cortisol production. Daniel Gilbert stress yoga happiness 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. Daniel Gilbert believe people thinking Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy. Daniel Gilbert motivated behavior people Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us. Daniel Gilbert emotional unique thinking 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 stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little. Daniel Gilbert gauges meals next-week The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. Daniel Gilbert knowing secret happiness Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy. Daniel Gilbert impact Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written. Daniel Gilbert organized-mind smart important 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 what our brain wants. The conspiracy between these two servants allows us to live at the fulcrum of stark reality and comforting illusion. Daniel Gilbert eye views reality 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 to either. Daniel Gilbert bad-things truth-is good-things 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, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh. Daniel Gilbert optimistic blessed sorry Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know we're in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good, and true, it's time to make a run for the fence. Daniel Gilbert ignorant rude running 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 you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. Daniel Gilbert data doe littles 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 readily supply one. Daniel Gilbert research people religion Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough. Daniel Gilbert variety enough Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons. Daniel Gilbert environmental buttons doe What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they’re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being. Daniel Gilbert majority people looks
