Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: Požiūrio į save ateityje psichologija
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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kurie daro gilią įtaką
tapti, gyvenimams.
savo padarytu pasirinkimu.
kurias būdami paaugliai
skuba išsiskirti su tais,
skubėjo susituokti.
stengėsi gauti.
that fascinates me is,
gyvenimo tarpsnį,
mūsų asmeninė istorija,
šio teiginio argumentavimui.
pusiausvyra keičiasi.
change in the next 10 years,
per ateinančius 10 metų
changed in the last 10 years.
per praėjusius 10 metų.
interesting kind of analysis,
labai įdomią analizę,
throughout the lifespan.
mažiau, nei jūs manote.
nuo 18-likos iki 68-erių,
kiek daug jie pasikeis,
„istorijos galo“ iliuzija.
bet ir galybei kitų dalykų.
kad psichologai tikina, jog
dimensions of personality:
žmogaus asmenybės bruožai:
ir sąmoningumas.
per ateinančius 10 metų
changed over the last 10 years,
per praėjusius 10 metų.
kartų žiūrėti į šią diagramą,
seeing this diagram over and over,
žmonės neįvertina,
efermentiškiems dalykams,
apie tai, ką jie mėgsta ir ko – ne,
savo geriausią draugą,
per ateinančius 10 metų?“,
change over the next 10 years?"
per praėjusius 10 metų?“.
that doesn't have consequences?
neturintis jokių pasekmių?
I'll give you an example of why.
ir papasakosiu jums, kodėl.
sprendimų priėmimo procesui.
lengviau, matote ekrane.
how much they would pay
kiek jie mokėtų
Mes tiksliai nežinome,
who we were 10 years ago,
kokie buvote prieš 10 metų,
kokie būsime.
that because it's hard to imagine,
kad jeigu sunku įsivaizduoti,
„Negaliu to įsivaizduoti“,
their own lack of imagination,
savo vaizduotės trūkumą,
yra galinga jėga.
kad jau yra tai baigę.
kuriais buvote kada nors anksčiau.
mūsų gyvenimuose yra pokyčiai.
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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