Ted Talk: The Suprprising Science of Happiness

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Interesting talk, I'm not sure I grok the implications of what's being said here though.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Dan Gilbert, author of "Stumbling on Happiness," challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.

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

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1. Love this.

Wish I were better at incorporating these things into my life. Intellectually, wow, makes so much sense. Emotionally, mentally, real every day life - ly . . . Not so much.

Good thing to keep in mind though -- life happens. Be happy with it.

Reminds me of my son's preschool music teacher. You know that box full of instruments? The cymbals, the drum, the triangle, the bells, maracas, etc. . . Well, you get what you get. "Miss Patsy's rule? "Be happy with what you get." Served us well in child rearing. Too bad we didn't apply it to our own lives. Too bad our children seem to have forgotten it as they have aged as well.

I think it's time to bring Miss Patsy's rule back: "Be happy with what you have."