There is a huge wave of interest in happiness, among researchers.
We go on vacations, to a very large extent, in the service of our remembering self.
We have the remembering self and the experiencing self, and they're really quite distinct.
We really should not think of happiness as a substitute for well-being.
Endings are very very important and in this case, the ending dominated.
I have consumed my memories of that trip for about 25 minutes in the last four years.
Happiness is just not a useful word anymore, because we apply it to too many different things.
Most of the moments of our life are completely ignored by the remembering self.
We are capable of measuring the happiness of the experiencing self over time.
How satisified somebody is with their life doesn't teach you much about how happily they've living it.
There is a difference between being happy in your life and being happy about your life.
Why do we put so much weight on memory relative to the weight that we put on experiences?
You have a lot of uncertainty about how happy they are with their experiencing self.
The remembering self is the self that maintains the story of your life.
It's interesting to trace what happens to people who move to California to get happier.
Time is the critical variable that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self.
The one that is worse is the one where pain was at its peak at the end.
The experiencing self is the self that lives largely in the present.
