In America We Tell Our Parents To

The Saying Goes That History Repeats Itself; Personal Histories Do The Same. We Can Gather The Lessons Of Others' Lives Through Observation, Conversation, And By Seeking Advice. We Can Use The Automatic System To Find Out Who The Happy People Are, And The Reflective System To Evaluate How They Got To Be That Way. Pursuing Happiness Need Not Be A Lonely Endeavor. In Fact, Throwing In Our Lot With Others May Be A Very Good Way Of Coping With The Disappointments Of Choice.

In Order To 'hold Fast' To Something, One Must Allow Oneself To Be Held To Something. That Commitment May Be One Of The Hardest Things To Practice In A World Of So Much Choice.

I Went Home And They Seemed... My Parents Seemed Normal. They Didn't Seem To Feel Like Somehow They Had Been Victims Of Some Nazi Camp Or Something.

I Do Think That There Are Cultural Differences In The Extent To Which We Value Having More And More Choice.

So Most Of The Time When We Are Confronted By More, Rather Than A Few, Choices We're Often Novices And So We Don't Really Know How To Differentiate These Various Options.