【024】幸福的秘诀|The surprising science of happiness

Speaker：Dan Gilbert

Key words：合成快乐 前额叶皮层

Abstract：演讲者发现中彩票的人和被截肢的人的幸福快乐的程度几乎相同，因为快乐是可以人工合成的！如何做到？那快乐的秘诀到底有哪些呢？

Content：

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• 快乐是可以人工合成的，happiness can be synthesized

• Experience simulator[经验模拟器]

  • is to have experiences in their heads before they try them out in real life

  • in pre-frontal cortex

  • impact bias[影响偏差]

    is the tendency for the simulator to work badly

    for the simulator to make you believe that different outcomes are more different than in fact they really are

    eg: a year after losing the use of their legs, and a year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives.[夸大不同]→why→synthesized happiness→psychological immune system

• Psychological immune system[心理免疫系统]

  • cognitive processes that help them change their views of the world, so that they can feel better about the worlds in which they find themselves
    • Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted.
    • GOTTEN PAINTING AND NOT GOTTEN PAINTING[The one I own is better than I thought. The one I didn't own, the one I left behind, is not as good as I thought.]
  • Situations[影响因素]:
    • freedom, the ability to make up your mind and change your mind, is the friend of natural happiness & the enemy of synthetic happiness.
    • eg: DARKROOM STORY

Digests:

• We should have preferences that lead us into one future over another. But when those preferences drive us too hard and too fast because we have overrated the difference between these futures, we are at risk. When our ambition is bounded, it leads us to work joyfully. When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of real value. When our fears are bounded, we're prudent, we're cautious, we're thoughtful. When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we're reckless, and we're cowardly.
• The lesson I want to leave you with, from these data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown,because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.

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Link：TED|Open163