To Learn From Experience, We Must Remember

Because Your Brain Uses Information From The Areas Around The Blind Spot To Make A Reasonable Guess About What The Blind Spot Would See If Only It Weren't Blind, And Then Your Brain Fills In The Scene With This Information. That's Right, It Invents Things, Creates Things, Makes Stuff Up! It Doesn't Consult You About This, Doesn't Seek Your Approval. It Just Makes Its Best Guess About The Nature Of The Missing Information And Proceeds To Fill In The Scene.

We Are Happy When We Have Family, We Are Happy When We Have Friends And Almost All The Other Things We Think Make Us Happy Are Actually Just Ways Of Getting More Family And Friends.

Reality' Is A Movie Generated By Our Brains. Because We Don't Realize This, We Are Far Too Confident That The Stuff Appearing In The Movie Is Actually 'out There' In The World When, In Fact, It's Not.

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.

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.