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Alas, We Think Of Ourselves As Unique Entities-minds Unlike Any Others-and Thus We Often Reject The Lessons That The Emotional Experience Of Others Has To Teach Us.

Why Isn’t It Fun To Watch A Videotape Of Last Night’s Football Game Even When We Don’t Know Who Won? Because The Fact That The Game Has Already Been Played Precludes The Possibility That Our Cheering Will Somehow Penetrate The Television, Travel Through The Cable System, Find Its Way To The Stadium, And Influence The Trajectory Of The Ball As It Hurtles Toward The Goalposts!

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.

Your Mistake Was Not In Imagining Things You Could Not Know—that Is, After All, What Imagination Is For. Rather, Your Mistake Was In Unthinkingly Treating What You Imagined As Though It Were An Accurate Representation Of The Facts.

We Treat Our Future Selves As Though They Were Our Children, Spending Most Of The Hours Of Most Of Our Days Constructing Tomorrows That We Hope Will Make Them Happy