We Treat Our Future Selves As Though

The Human Brain Is The Only Object In The Known Universe That Can Predict Its Own Future And Tell Its On Fortune. The Fact That We Can Make Disastrous Decisions Even As We Foresee Their Consequences Is The Great, Unsolved Mystery Of Human Behavior. When You Hold Your Fate In Your Hands, Why Would You Ever Make A Fist?

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage

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.

Our Brain Accepts What The Eyes See And Our Eye Looks For Whatever Our Brain Wants.

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.