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 ….

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make yo….

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. Th….

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants..

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary….

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others..

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will ….

Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to dis….

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 h….

Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly tre….

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of ….

If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tel….

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished..

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like t….

I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I ….

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agree….

Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune ….

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 movie is actuall….

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 forth, betw….

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end..