Daniel Kahneman on two kinds of happiness

[ciphergoth]

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory at TED 2010. Video, 20 minutes, transcript to right of video.

Kahneman, one of the founders of behavioural economics, on how our remembered happiness correlates only weakly with our experienced moment-to-moment happiness, and the profound implications for the study of happiness and the pursuit of happiness. I'll find it hard to think about happiness the same way again.

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[juliet]

You may wish to add for those of us who are allergic to video that there's a transcript link top right of the video. (THANK FVCK, because otherwise I would not have bothered with any of the TED stuff I've seen. 20 min? when I can read it in <2min? no chance.)

(eta: and now I've read it & I have a whole bunch of stuff that I would like to say but no time in which to say it right now. I may be back :) )

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Added a mention of it - thanks!