Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: A psicologia do nosso "eu" futuro
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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influenciarão profundamente
com as decisões que tomamos.
correm para divorciarem-se
correram para casar.
se esforçam para perder
se esforçaram para ganhar.
that fascinates me is,
que me fascina é:
fundamentalmente errada
mudar a cada minuto,
ponto mágico na vida,
Ao que parece, a resposta
andando por aí com uma ilusão,
nossa história pessoal,
para apoiar essa afirmação.
que, conforme você cresce,
o equilíbrio destes valores muda.
a milhares de pessoas.
change in the next 10 years,
nos próximos 10 anos,
changed in the last 10 years.
mudado nos últimos 10 anos.
interesting kind of analysis,
tipo de análise bem interessante,
throughout the lifespan.
para toda a vida.
à medida que envelhecemos,
nem de perto o quanto pensamos.
em nosso conjunto de dados,
o quanto de mudança
durante os próximos 10 anos.
de ilusão do "fim da história".
da magnitude desse efeito,
São todos os tipos de coisas.
que agora os psicólogos dizem
dimensions of personality:
fundamentais de personalidade:
o quanto elas esperavam
changed over the last 10 years,
mudado nos últimos 10 anos,
seeing this diagram over and over,
com este diagrama,
as pessoas subestimam
seus gostos e desgostos,
change over the next 10 years?"
nos próximos 10 anos?"
já vimos isso duas vezes
que o amigo que têm agora
10 anos mais velhas dizem:
that doesn't have consequences?
que não tem consequências?
I'll give you an example of why.
e vou lhes dar um exemplo do motivo.
de decisão, de forma importante.
para ajudá-los.
disseram que pagariam
how much they would pay
quanto elas pagariam
quem éramos há 10 anos,
who we were 10 years ago,
em imaginar quem seremos,
that because it's hard to imagine,
porque é difícil de imaginar,
"Não consigo imaginar",
their own lack of imagination,
de sua própria falta de imaginação,
é uma força poderosa.
pensam que estão prontos.
tão fugaz e tão temporária
em nossa vida é a mudança.
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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