Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: Psihologia sinelui tău viitor
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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de deciziile pe care le-am luat.
pe care ca adolescenții
se grăbesc să divorțeze de oamenii
s-au grăbit să se căsătorească.
muncesc din greu să piardă
au muncit din greu să câștige.
that fascinates me is,
ca psiholog este
le regretă adesea?
cu fiecare clipă,
cu trecerea anilor.
acestei magice etape a vieții
istoria noastră personală,
care să-mi susțină afirmația.
de-a lungul timpului.
echilibrul acestor valori se modifică.
să prezică pentru noi
change in the next 10 years,
valorile lor în următorii 10 ani,
changed in the last 10 years.
în ultimii 10 ani.
interesting kind of analysis,
o analiză extrem de interesantă
throughout the lifespan.
pentru durata unei vieți.
pe măsură ce îmbătrânim,
atât de mult precum credem.
din setul nostru de date,
cât de tare
despre magnitudinea acestui efect,
Sunt multe alte lucruri.
dimensions of personality:
fundamentale ale personalității:
în legătură cu cât se așteptau
changed over the last 10 years,
seeing this diagram over and over,
să vedeți această diagramă iar și iar,
subestimează
personalitatea
change over the next 10 years?"
în următorii zece ani?”
de două ori până acum,
pe care îl au acum
peste zece ani,
acum cel mai mult e cea
cu zece ani mai în vârstă spun:
that doesn't have consequences?
fără consecințe?
I'll give you an example of why.
și o să vă dau un exemplu de ce.
de decizii în feluri importante.
how much they would pay
cât ar plăti
Nu suntem siguri în totalitate,
who we were 10 years ago,
cine am fost acum zece ani,
that because it's hard to imagine,
că, deoarece e greu să ne imaginăm,
„Nu-mi pot imagina asta”,
their own lack of imagination,
propria lor lipsă de imaginație,
în cele din urmă,
că sunt lucrări încheiate.
e schimbarea.
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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