Quotes by Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

People

Toothless

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.

Blind Spots

Brain

Missing

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Important

Organized Mind

Smart

Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

Behavior

Motivated

People

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Causes

Feelings

Happiness

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

Humans

Progress

Thinking

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible… Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Buttons

Doe

Environmental

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.

Ice Cream

Thinking

Two

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I’m so blessed, it’s almost scary. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

Blessed

Optimistic

Sorry

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it’s like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

Done

Lawyer

People

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Average

Bad Things

Behavior

Believe

Blessed

Blind Spots

Blood

Brain

Buttons

Causes

Cheer

Choices

Criticism

Data

Doe

Done

Doors

Economist

Emotional

Enough

Environmental

Europe

Eye

Feelings

Football

Fun

Good Things

Happiness

Humans

Ice Cream

Impact

Important

Inability

Intelligent

Judging

Judgment

Knows

Lawyer

Likes

Littles

Looks

Mean

Memories

Missing

Mistake

Motivated

Moving

Offering

Optimistic

Organized Mind

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Quotes by Daniel Gilbert

Daniel Gilbert

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible… Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

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.

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I’m so blessed, it’s almost scary. I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

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