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Daniel Gilbert Quotes
Daniel Gilbert
American
Psychologist
Born:
Nov 5
,
1957
Good
Happiness
Happy
Me
People
You
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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
Daniel Gilbert
You
Happy
Emotions
World
Unhappy
Pressure
Fluctuate
Back
Guides
System
Through
Between
Like
Supposed
How
Blood
Blood Pressure
Move
Just
Forth
Meant
Your
Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
Daniel Gilbert
Buy
You
Tomorrow
Too Much
Will
Big
Few
Meal
Too
Gauge
Supermarket
Week
Feel
Empty
Empty Stomach
How
Go
Accurately
Stomach
Shop
After
Little
Us
Much
Next
Why
Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
Daniel Gilbert
Too
Enough
Rules
Variety
Improves
Often
Things
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
Daniel Gilbert
Future
Happy
Hell
Thinking
Our
Strive
Backward
Criticized
Seems
Cast
Somewhat
No-One
Glance
Likes
Make
Course
Were
Wonder
Selves
Them
Then
Successfully
Avoid
Disparaging
Reasonable
Things
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert
Truth
Good
Truth Is
Good Things
Bad Things
Too
Bad
True
Affect
Very
Quickly
Expect
Either
Them
Us
Things
Profoundly
Adapt
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
Daniel Gilbert
Happiness
Buy
You
Money
Rich
Says
Cases
Data
More
Both
Does
Lot
Little
Poor
Little Money
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
Daniel Gilbert
You
Happy
People
Better
Differences
Think
Extremely
Smack
Small
Both
Head
Like
Most
Make
Around
Than
Same
Same Things
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Us
Much
Peach
Actually
Things
Margins
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