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, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. - Daniel Gilbert
People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
- Daniel Gilbert
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end. - Daniel Gilbert
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. - Daniel Gilbert
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
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… - Daniel Gilbert
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…
Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune … - Daniel Gilbert
Lower your cortisol level. The happiest people have the lowest level of cortisol, a stress hormone that raises blood pressure and weakens the immune …
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants. - Daniel Gilbert
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed - Daniel Gilbert
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
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 … - Daniel Gilbert
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 secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. - Daniel Gilbert
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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