Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Dan Gilbert: Psikologjia e vetes se ardhshme
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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do te ndikojne rrenjesisht
me vendimet e marra.
te divorcojne njerez
shume per te fituar.
that fascinates me is,
ajo qe me magjeps mua eshte,
ndryshojne cdo minute
sikur ndryshojne cdo vit.
Eshte ne moshen e mesme?
rrotull me nje iluzion,
per te mbeshtur kete.
e vlerave personale
nderkohe qe rriteni,
balanca e ketyre vlerave ndryshon.
te parashikonin per ne
change in the next 10 years,
ne 10 vitet e ardhshme
changed in the last 10 years.
ne 10 vitet e fundit.
interesting kind of analysis,
shume interesante,
throughout the lifespan.
gjate gjithe jetes.
qe ishte dhe kufiri ne te dhenat,
sesa shume ndryshim
Jane nje teresi gjerash te tjera.
se psikologet pohojne
dimensions of personality:
te personalitetit:
dhe ndergjegjshmeria.
se cfare prisnin ata
changed over the last 10 years,
ata kishin ndryshuar ne keto 10 vite,
seeing this diagram over and over,
perseri e perseri,
qe pelqejne dhe nuk pelqejne,
cili eshte shoku yt i ngushte,
change over the next 10 years?"
ne 10 vitet ne vazhdim?"
ne 10 vitet ne vazhdim,
me te medhenj na thone,
that doesn't have consequences?
qe nuk ka pasoja?
I'll give you an example of why.
do t'ju jap nje shembull pse.
ne menyra te rendesishme.
ne menyre qe t'ju vij ne ndihme juve.
pas 10 vitesh nga tani,
how much they would pay
Ne nuk jemi plotesisht te sigurte,
who we were 10 years ago,
sesi ishin para 10 vitesh,
se kush do te jene,
that because it's hard to imagine,
sepse eshte e veshtire te imagjinosh,
"nuk mund ta imagjinoj kete"
their own lack of imagination,
per mungesen e tyre te imagjinates,
nje force shume e fuqishme.
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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