Last week, i had a Ted night. The whole evening i watched Ted video’s. Two video’s inspired me the most.
The first impressive video was from ‘psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.’
Ted advised me to watch Dan Gilbert after Schwartz. He ‘challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.’ Funny part are the 4 reasons to be happy:
1. Accrue wealth, power, and prestige. Then lose it.
2. Spend as much of your life in prison as you possibly can.
3. Make someone else really, really rich.
4. Never ever join the Beatles.
