Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: Tulevaisuuden minämme psykologia
Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. Full bio
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vaikuttavat perusteellisesti
joiksi olemme tulossa
päätöksistä, joita teimme.
päästäkseen eroon
näkivät paljon vaivaa saadakseen.
that fascinates me is,
perustavanlaatuinen väärinymmärrys
change in the next 10 years,
seuraavan 10 vuoden aikana,
changed in the last 10 years.
viimeisten 10 vuoden aikana.
interesting kind of analysis,
mielenkiintoisen analyysin tekemisen,
throughout the lifespan.
18-vuotiaasta 68-vuotiaaseen,
kuinka paljon muutoksia
vaan kaikenlaisia asioita.
dimensions of personality:
viisi keskeistä ulottuvuutta:
kuinka paljon he odottivat
changed over the last 10 years,
viimeisten 10 vuoden aikana,
seeing this diagram over and over,
tämän kuvan näkemiseen,
tulee muuttumaan
mieltymyksistään ja inhokeistaan,
change over the next 10 years?"
seuraavan 10 vuoden aikana?"
viimeisten 10 vuoden aikana?"
olette nähneet sen jo kahdesti,
että heidän paras ystävänsä
jotka ovat 10 vuotta vanhempia sanovat:
that doesn't have consequences?
ilman seurauksia?
I'll give you an example of why.
ja annan teille esimerkin miksi.
merkittävästi.
että he maksaisivat
how much they would pay
kuinka paljon he maksaisivat
oli heidän suosikkinsa
mahdollisuudesta
Emme ole täysin varmoja,
who we were 10 years ago,
millaisia olimme 10 vuotta sitten,
millaisiksi olemme muuttumassa,
that because it's hard to imagine,
että koska ennustaminen on vaikeaa,
"En voi kuvitella sellaista",
their own lack of imagination,
mielikuvituksen puutteestaan,
olevansa valmiita.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Gilbert - Psychologist; happiness expertHarvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness.
Why you should listen
Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us have the wrong map. In the same way that optical illusions fool our eyes -- and fool everyone's eyes in the same way -- Gilbert argues that our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. And these quirks in our cognition make humans very poor predictors of our own bliss.
The premise of his current research -- that our assumptions about what will make us happy are often wrong -- is supported with clinical research drawn from psychology and neuroscience. But his delivery is what sets him apart. His engaging -- and often hilarious -- style pokes fun at typical human behavior and invokes pop-culture references everyone can relate to. This winning style translates also to Gilbert's writing, which is lucid, approachable and laugh-out-loud funny. The immensely readable Stumbling on Happiness, published in 2006, became a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 20 languages.
In fact, the title of his book could be drawn from his own life. At 19, he was a high school dropout with dreams of writing science fiction. When a creative writing class at his community college was full, he enrolled in the only available course: psychology. He found his passion there, earned a doctorate in social psychology in 1985 at Princeton, and has since won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Phi Beta Kappa teaching prize for his work at Harvard. He has written essays and articles for The New York Times, Time and even Starbucks, while continuing his research into happiness at his Hedonic Psychology Laboratory.
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