Dan Gilbert: Why are we happy? Why aren't we happy?
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jan 16, 2007
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 even when things dont go as planned.
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Oh! the narrator of the BMW ad at the end is the same narrator from "The Most Interesting Man in the World" commercials!!!
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You were totally staring at his penis through the whole video.
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You can totally see his penis through his jeans through the whole video.
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Great video! I really respect and like what you are doing! Keep the videos coming!
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thats why so many ppl were actually happy in soviet union.. u didnt really had too many choise u could make
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Very interesting TED talk - I've made use of this video in a post on choice and happiness on my Nextstarfish blog
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@dylanm32 how do you mean?
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This is the programming part of NLP - cool!
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What phone call was he going to take on stage??
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My grandfather used to say "Socrates loved to go to the market to see all the things he didn't need."
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is anyone going to comment on how ironic it is that this talk is followed by a BMW commercial?
wordsandcolor 9 months ago 56
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be"
-Abraham Lincoln
7777Mads 9 months ago 44