Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
Den Gilbert (Dan Gilbert): Psihologija vašeg budućeg ja
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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duboko uticati
odlukama koje smo doneli.
kao tinejdžeri skupo platili
da se razvedu od osoba
naporno radili da steknu.
that fascinates me is,
fascinira je
tako često zažali?
pogrešno shvatanje
brzina promena
životnog veka,
menjaju kroz minute,
magični trenutak u životu
Srednje godine?
ispostavilo se,
sa iluzijom,
naša lična istorija,
koji podržavaju tu tvrdnju.
kako odrastate,
ovih vrednosti se menja.
change in the next 10 years,
u narednih 10 godina,
changed in the last 10 years.
promenile u poslednjih 10 godina.
interesting kind of analysis,
veoma interesantnu analizu,
uporedimo predviđanja
throughout the lifespan.
kroz životni vek.
onoliko koliko smo mislili.
u našem istraživanju,
koliko promene
o veličini ovog efekta,
Ima tu raznih stvari.
danas tvrde da
dimensions of personality:
očekuju da se promene
changed over the last 10 years,
u predhodnih 10 godina,
seeing this diagram over and over,
gledate ovaj dijagram,
ljudi potcenjuju
a šta ne vole,
change over the next 10 years?"
u sledećih 10 godina?"
poslednjih 10 godina?"
koje imaju sada
svi kažu,
that doesn't have consequences?
koje nema nikakve posledice?
I'll give you an example of why.
i daću vam primer zašto.
donošenje odluka.
pre 10 godina.
da vam pomognem.
how much they would pay
koliko bi platili
kako nastupa danas,
Nismo u potpunosti sigurni,
kakvi smo bili pre 10 godina,
who we were 10 years ago,
kakvi ćemo biti za 10 godina,
that because it's hard to imagine,
da pošto nam je teško da zamislimo
"To ne mogu da zamislim,"
their own lack of imagination,
o sopstvenom nedostatku mašte,
na vremenskoj liniji,
nestalna i privremena
u našim životima je promena.
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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