The riddle of experience vs. memory.

Posted by Tony on Jul 19 2010

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Is the secret to happiness Experiences or our Memory? How the stories we tell our selves about our lives control how happy we are regardless of our circumstances. WATCH! Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman.

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82 Comments

  1. well written blog. Im glad that I could find more info on this. thanks

    student grants on August 30th 2010

  2. This reminds me a lot of the concept of short term fulfillment versus long term fulfillment.

    But based on this seminar I guess that long term fulfillment also needs to involve the experiencing self.

    Maybe long term fulfillment is when the experiencing self and remembering self are being nurtured at around the same time.

    Mel Young on August 30th 2010

  3. This is really very interesting way to learn English!I’ve never seen befor!

    melina on August 15th 2010

  4. Great to know that we live our life through past experiences…
    happiness is clearly relative to the story you tell yourself…
    So, I anticipate telling myself great stories so I can better experience happiness in real time.

    ceron on August 14th 2010

  5. Interesting- never thought of it that way!

    Brian Hatano on August 7th 2010

  6. Thanks for the intersting movie!

    Mizuko on August 4th 2010

  7. According to Amazon, there are 7,933 titles with the word ‘Happiness’ in them. It only displays results up to page 100, or book 1200, but the books on that page *did* have the word ‘happiness’ in them.

    Software pro tip, if you want to know the count of something that matches an easy condition, ask a computer guy. That search took me 2 minutes. :-)

    John MacIntyre on August 1st 2010

  8. Absolutely fascinating. It will have me THINKING for days. I am very happy in the last year or so . . . and I THINK it is because I briefly consider (THINK about) factors a-b-c, I give them MEANING, and the result is a background hum of unanalyzed joy that permeates everything. What is the role of ascribed MEANING to the Remembering Self in the good doctor’s model? RRR

    Rebecca Riales on July 31st 2010

  9. Fascinating. Everyone should see this. The satisfaction with our lives are so much a function of our memory. By becoming aware that the satisfaction we have in our lives, or our happiness, is mostly a result of our memory, rather than actual experience we may be able to focus our attention to more pleasant memories that can increase our happiness. Thank you for the insight.

    Rita on July 30th 2010

  10. I wonder if there has been a study to determine what would happen if everyone’s income was $60,000? What would that make people feel like? Or, even if you were the one at $60,000 wouldn’t you then be the poorest? Wouldn’t you then be miserable?

    Sherry on July 29th 2010

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