Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

http://www.ted.com Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

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[timetraveler2006]

@dookiee0000001

it's called being a professor.

He prolly asked his graduate student to do it. Besides the precise reason he asked is because he prolly already knew there'd be far too many to count...

[usemoreproduct]

TED is the remembering self.



[tonyfalca]

@dookiee0000001 I bet you that your statement is based upon quite a bit of uncertainty. ;)

[JonathanBloggs]

This talk has solved for me all the discrepancies between happiness statistics i've ever heard

[DontTouchMyVicodin]

12:44 a guy in the audience doing a Stephen Hawking impersonation.

[crudhousefull]

@amxrtdket Married with children?

[faresnaif]

👎؟؟؟



[tarantism]

@AroundSun nice comments. Have you ever read Uncommon Sense - A Real American Manifesto? I think that is a book all Americans should read. It opened my eyes up to how great American principles are. I was beginning to condemn and despise America, but so much of the problems with this country today are from fascist, corrupt government officials along with ignorant citizens who put up with it, because they don't know that the government can only legally do what a person can legally do.

[bahamamark]

@18.44: The questioner had a dishonest question in regards to American public policy.

America is about protecting the *RIGHT* to pursue happiness; it is not about "increasing taxes" on some to have the state give the money to others to "make them happy."

[Md1ux]

It's worth being happy about this realization entering a forum like this (j. Krishnamurti - anyone?). Memory is often total bullshit.