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Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?

http://www.ted.com Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that well be miserable if we dont get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy ...  
 
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kreaturen (5 hours ago) Show Hide
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Well, we need our hands aswell, as tools to create what we imagine in our brains, but yeah, it's a condition. For all I know the dolphines could have a prefrontal cortex or equivalent also, but they lack the external tools on their body that we benefit from, but which probably makes them a lot happier than us:)
FortMillstone (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Don't worry be happy.. xD
barsakus (1 week ago) Show Hide
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I liked this talk very much.
mindnumber9 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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sociopaths!
karolis30 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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so prefrontal cortex is the condition for civilization? isn't it?
mindnumber9 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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having the answers - being correct - is offensive... a lot of the time, for a lot of ppl.

suicide. to say ''the choices they made'' is blame. it is sometimes exactly that blame and fault of being bad and wrong and so much misunderstanding that drives ppl to the extreme.
Floralin (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Can you imagine that some people have regretted their choices so bad that they took their lives ?

Sometimes knowledge can be a life- saver.
Floralin (1 month ago) Show Hide
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GREAT !
mindnumber9 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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all of this fast and over-articulated talk happens to cause a sigh. sigh...

i was born with a heavy grief (all of the answers). it was a really big problem.

i thought solving problems would make me happy.

it does.

wants. haves. needs.
mdobejr (1 month ago) Show Hide
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@mindnumber9
you were born with all the answers? What does that even mean?
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To me, the more I learn, the more I realize how much I truly don't know! Born with all the answers, hah.

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