Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: Psihologija vašega bodočega jaza
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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ki bodo globoko vplivale
se bomo spremenili
nad preteklimi odločitvami.
za odstranjevanje tetovaž,
hitijo z ločitvami od ljudi,
mladi odrasli hiteli poročati.
da se znebijo tistega,
trdo delali, da bi imeli.
that fascinates me is,
tako pogosto obžalujejo.
to vas bom želel danes prepričati -
zmanjša tekom človekovega življenja,
iz minute v minuto,
tista čarobna točka v življenju,
iz galopa v plazenje?
Izkazalo se je,
da vsi hodimo naokrog z iluzijo,
naša osebna zgodovina, pravkar zaključila,
v podporo moji trditvi.
osebnih vrednot v času.
ampak verjetno veste, da ko odraščate,
se ravnovesje med njimi premika.
naj predvidijo,
change in the next 10 years,
spremenile v naslednjih desetih letih
changed in the last 10 years.
v zadnjih desetih letih.
interesting kind of analysis,
zelo zanimivo analizo,
predvidevanj ljudi, recimo starih 18 let,
throughout the lifespan.
vsa življenjska obdobja.
sprememba se upočasni s starostjo,
toliko, kot mislimo, da se.
od 18 do 68 v naši študiji,
podcenjevali obseg sprememb,
v naslednjih 10 letih.
povežite ti dve črti
predvidijo le tak obseg spremembe,
dimensions of personality:
razsežnosti osebnosti:
in vestnost.
koliko pričakujejo, da se bodo spremenili
da so se spremenili v zadnjih 10 letih
changed over the last 10 years,
seeing this diagram over and over,
tale graf spet in spet,
ko se staramo,
ljudje podcenjujejo,
kot vrednote in osebnost.
kaj imajo radi in kaj ne,
najljubši hobi,
Polovico prosimo, da nam pove:
change over the next 10 years?"
naslednjih desetih letih spremenilo?"
desetih letih spremenilo?"
ki ga imajo danes, imeli tudi čez 10 let,
uživajo, bodo uživali tudi čez 10 let,
10 let starejši vsi pravijo:
that doesn't have consequences?
predvidevanja brez posledic?
I'll give you an example of why.
in dal vam bom primer, zakaj.
trenutno najljubšega glasbenika
naj za nas predvidijo,
da bi plačali okrog 95 EUR za vstopnico.
how much they would pay
najljubša pred desetimi leti, danes,
bi to morala biti enaka številka,
Nismo povsem prepričani,
who we were 10 years ago,
kdo smo bili pred desetimi leti,
zamisliti si, kdo bomo postali
that because it's hard to imagine,
ker si je težko zamišljati,
"Tega si ne predstavljam,"
their own lack of imagination,
pomanjkanju lastne domišljije
ki ga opisujejo.
sprememb se lahko zgodi v desetletju.
sedanjost nek čaroben čas.
v katerem končno postanemo mi sami.
tako minljiva in začasna
je sprememba.
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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