Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
ダン・ギルバート: 未来の自分に対する心理
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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大いに影響する
喜ぶとは限りません
that fascinates me is,
疑問は これです
決断をするのか
私たちが根本的に
変化しているように見えますが
見えないというわけです
変化が突然
その答えは 何と
常に錯覚を抱えているということです
最近なったばかり
このままの自分で行く
経年変化を調べた研究です
ご存じでしょう
change in the next 10 years,
予想してもらいました
changed in the last 10 years.
どれくらい変わったか聞きました
interesting kind of analysis,
実に興味深い分析ができました
throughout the lifespan.
変化は緩やかになるということです
どの年齢でも
呼んでいます
他のどんなことでもそうです
dimensions of personality:
ご存じでしょう
開放性
勤勉性です
今後10年間で
changed over the last 10 years,
どのくらい変化したか
seeing this diagram over and over,
自分の性格が どれくらい変わるか
つまり基本的な好みについて
change over the next 10 years?"
ご覧になった通りですが
口を揃えて言うのです
that doesn't have consequences?
単なる予測のミスでしょうか
I'll give you an example of why.
理由をいくつか説明します
私たちの意思決定を惑わせます
how much they would pay
明らかになっていませんが
想像する難しさの
who we were 10 years ago,
思い出せますが
that because it's hard to imagine,
想像が難しいということは
「想像できない」と言うのは
their own lack of imagination,
欠如しているという話であって
ということです
気づくのです
勘違いしているものです
「変わる」ということだけなのです
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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