While looking into different topics to work on. I was getting my daily fix from TED and stumbled upon a Harvard Psychologist, Daniel Gilbert's talk on happiness. He talks about the comparison of our brains and how it has evolved significantly.His intro on TED.
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
A quote from Sir Thomas Brown (1642).
Gilbert gave an example on comparing two groups of people with drastically different experiences–one being the people who's won the lottery, the other being the people with a limp amputated. I all can predict the happiness level between the two groups. However, he shows the data proving that after a year, the happiness level of these two groups become the same.
Our guess.
His Data.
Impact Biased is what he explained the reason of it is. It's something that researchers have discovered that we simulate outcomes/consequences in our brain before the actual experience. Simply put, things are all worse in our head before we actually do it.
Synthetic Happiness vs. Natural Happiness
Natural Happiness: What we get when we get what we wanted
Synthetic Happiness: What we make when we don't get what we wanted
Natural Happiness: What we get when we get what we wanted
Synthetic Happiness: What we make when we don't get what we wanted
Freedom the friend of natural happiness. But, the freedom to choose is the enemy of synthetic happiness. The psychological system works best when we're totally stuck, when we're trapped.
Grass is greener on my side!
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