Research Suggests That People Are Typically Unaware

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.

The Good News Is That Going Blind Is Not Going To Make You As Unhappy As You Think It Will. The Bad News Is That Winning The Lottery Will Not Make You As Happy As You Expect.

The Word Happiness Is Used To Indicate At Least Three Related Things, Which We Might Roughly Call Emotional Happiness, Moral Happiness, And Judgmental Happiness.

The Mistakes We Make When We Try To Imagine Our Personal Futures Are Also Lawful, Regular, And Systematic. They, Too, Have A Pattern That Tells Us About The Powers And Limits Of Foresight In Much The Same Way That Optical Illusions Tell Us About The Powers And Limits Of Eyesight.

Most Of Us Appear To Believe That We Are More Athletic, Intelligent, Organized, Ethical, Logical, Interesting, Open-minded, And Healthy-not To Mention More Attractive-than The Average Person.