My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.
Daniel Todd GilbertThe fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
Daniel Todd GilbertPsychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Daniel Todd GilbertTags: humor
We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their lips, and vibrated some air. Yes, those vibrations can make us feel sad or stupid or alienated. Tough shit. That's the price of admission to the marketplace of ideas. 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 Todd GilbertTags: freedom society free-speech ideas
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 Todd GilbertTags: awareness justifications making-excuses
Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.
Daniel Todd GilbertTags: stumbling-on-happiness
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
Daniel Todd GilbertThe belief-transmission network of which we are a part cannot operate without a continuously replenished supply of people to do the transmitting, thus the belief that children are a source of happiness becomes a part of our cultural wisdom simply because the opposite belief unravels the fabric of any society that holds it.
Daniel Todd GilbertTags: psychology
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.
Daniel Todd GilbertEach of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.
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