Daniel Gilbert Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

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  Data, Doe, Littles

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• Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

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  Inability, Riches, Poverty

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• Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

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  Blind Spots, Missing, Brain

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• Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

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  Happiness, Feelings, Causes

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.37, Vintage

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

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  White, Perfection, Albums

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.65, Vintage

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• The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

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  Pay, Pleasure, Spoil

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• Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

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  Believe, Intelligent, Average

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• Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

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  People, Toothless

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• Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

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  Psychologist, Economist, Utility

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• Para que nuestras opiniones sean creíbles, nuestro cerebro acepta lo que ve nuestro ojo. Para garantizar que nuestros puntos de vista sean positivos, nuestro ojo busca lo que quiere nuestro cerebro. La conspiración entre estos dos servidores nos permite vivir en el fulcro de la cruda realidad y la reconfortante ilusión.

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  Eye, Reality, Views

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.

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  Mistake, Trying, Patterns

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.16, Vintage

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