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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of ho...more

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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality...more

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You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people a...more

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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

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Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian ...more