Cognitive traps of happiness:
- Reluctance to admit to complexity: the word happiness is too general and applied to too many things.
- Confusion between experience and memory: being happy in your life vs being happy about/with your life.
- Focusing illusion: we cannot think about any circumstance that affects well being, without distorting its importance.
At the end of a vacation all your pictures are going to be destroyed. Would you choose the same activities?
I watched this TED talk awhile ago and it is really great. I suggest you take a look:
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html
I will have to check this talk out. I think I may have watched it a while back but I do need to see it again.
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