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Global warming is a deadly th...

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Alas, we think of ourselves a...

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

The price we pay for our irre...

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Perceptions are portraits, no...

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Arthritic toothless people wh...

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

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

The brain and the eye may hav...

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

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People are drastically overcon...

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

We all have direct experience ...

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

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The word happiness is used to ...

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Happiness refers to feelings, ...

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

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Because your brain uses inform...

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...

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My friends tell me that I have...

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

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The fact that we often judge t...

The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Daniel Levitin has more insigh...

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

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Human beings are works in prog...

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you're ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

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Which is more important - expe...

Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?

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To learn from experience, we m...

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

The price we pay for our irres...

The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

Daniel Gilbert 61 quotes

Is happiness really the only t...

Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

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Reality' is a movie generated ...

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.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....