Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: A psicologia do nosso futuro "eu"
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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que irāo afectar profundamente
com as decisões que tomámos.
que, em adolescentes,
apressam-se a divorciar-se de pessoas
se apressaram a casar.
esforçam-se por perder
se esforçaram por ganhar.
that fascinates me is,
tantas vezes se arrependem?
parecem mudar a cada minuto
parecem mudar só em cada ano.
desse ponto mágico na vida
por aí com uma ilusão,
a nossa história pessoal,
das nossas vidas.
para comprovar essa afirmação.
à medida que crescemos, que envelhecemos,
change in the next 10 years,
mudariam nos 10 anos seguintes,
changed in the last 10 years.
tinham mudado nos 10 anos anteriores.
interesting kind of analysis,
um tipo de análise muito interessante,
throughout the lifespan.
ao longo da vida.
conforme envelhecemos.
quanto nós pensamos.
no nosso banco de dados,
a quantidade de mudanças
a ilusão do "final da história".
da magnitude desse efeito,
pessoas com 18 anos
as pessoas de 50 anos prevêem.
São todo o tipo de coisas.
que psicólogos afirmam hoje
dimensions of personality:
fundamentais de personalidade:
e conscienciosidade.
o quanto elas esperavam mudar
changed over the last 10 years,
ao longo dos 10 anos anteriores.
seeing this diagram over and over,
este diagrama vezes sem conta —
as pessoas subestimam
de que é que gostam e não gostam.
change over the next 10 years?"
nos próximos 10 anos?"
duas vezes até agora —
que o amigo que têm agora
daqui a 10 anos.
mais velhas 10 anos dizem:
that doesn't have consequences?
que não tem consequências?
I'll give you an example of why.
e vou explicar-vos porquê.
de decisões de um modo importante.
há 10 anos atrás.
how much they would pay
a pessoa que era o seu favorito
pagariam apenas 80 dólares.
Não temos a certeza absoluta,
who we were 10 years ago,
de quem éramos há 10 anos atrás,
quem iremos ser,
that because it's hard to imagine,
provavelmente não vai acontecer.
"Eu não consigo imaginar isso",
their own lack of imagination,
da sua própria falta de imaginação,
o tempo é uma força poderosa.
é que percebemos
e tão temporária
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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