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3 ENTRIESThe TED Interview returns to Daniel Gilbert’s work on happiness, asking why people can be unreliable forecasters of their future emotional states. In an extended audio discussion with Chris Anderson, his earlier TED ideas rec
Daniel Kahneman’s The Riddle of Experience vs Memory asks why the quality of an experience and our later judgment about it can diverge. The talk distinguishes the experiencing self, which lives through moments, from the.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, the Secret to Happiness explores experiences in which a person becomes deeply absorbed in a meaningful activity. The talk invites a different view of wellbeing from the pursuit of comfort or.
