Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Дэн Гилберт: Психология своего «я» в будущем
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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за нанесение которых
that fascinates me is,
он не приходился.
на протяжении всей жизни.
тезис данными.
половину их них,
change in the next 10 years,
в течение следующих 10 лет,
changed in the last 10 years.
за последние 10 лет.
interesting kind of analysis,
очень интересный анализ,
throughout the lifespan.
анализ прожитых лет.
насколько нам кажется.
от 18 до 68 лет
Это и все другие аспекты.
что психологи сейчас выделяют
dimensions of personality:
открытость к опыту,
и добросовестность.
changed over the last 10 years,
за последние 10 лет.
seeing this diagram over and over,
что им нравится или не нравится,
вашего лучшего друга,
change over the next 10 years?"
в течение следующих 10 лет?»,
который у них есть сегодня,
и через 10 лет,
в один голос говорят:
that doesn't have consequences?
не ведущий ни к каким последствиям?
I'll give you an example of why.
нам глаза при принятии решений.
заплатить сейчас,
заплатить 129 долларов за билет.
how much they would pay
сколько бы они заплатили,
Мы до конца не знаем,
who we were 10 years ago,
кем были 10 лет назад,
кем мы будем в будущем,
that because it's hard to imagine,
что то, что тяжело представить,
«Я не могу себе это представить»,
their own lack of imagination,
недостаток воображения,
мы действительно понимаем,
изменилось за десятилетие.
развивающиеся создания,
что их формирование закончено.
и непостоянен,
которыми вы были раньше.
нашей жизни, — это изменения.
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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