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Book Introduction
The Royal Society of London selected it as one of the best science books of the year.
Would winning the lottery make you happy? Buying that new car you've been wanting for a long time? Buying a top-of-the-line laptop? Buying a DMB-equipped cell phone? If your team wins the World Cup? Marrying that person you've been secretly in love with? Getting accepted to your dream college or job? Getting promoted at work at breakneck speed? Will that make you happy?
It seems like it would be natural, but unfortunately, when such things actually happen, we don't feel as happy as we might expect.
Why is that?
According to this book, this is because our imagination is fatally flawed.
You imagine that buying a new car will make you very happy, but that fantasy lacks the nagging boss, the friend asking to borrow money, and the parking war on the way home from work.
If I break up with my lover, I expect the shock of the sky falling if our country doesn't make it to the round of 16 in the World Cup, but we still get along well.
Isn't that right? Because we have a "psychological immune system," and from the moment something like that happens, we do everything we can to protect ourselves.
He consoles himself by saying, "I don't know if I've had many goodbyes to meet you," and highlights the "meaning of winning one away game."
But when we imagine the future, we never dream that our brains will do this.
In this book, Professor Daniel Gilbert, a renowned psychologist at Harvard University, reveals the fundamental reason why we ultimately fail to become happy despite making happiness our greatest goal and striving to achieve it.
According to him, the reason our predictions of happiness are always off is because of the 'emotional immune system' that humans developed during the evolutionary process to survive in the world.
That is, due to the body's adaptive mechanism, when we are placed in a new situation, the brain adapts to the situation and becomes neutral after a certain amount of time, but the brain's cognitive process overlooks that part.
It's like when you're in a dark theater during the day and come out, the world suddenly looks dazzlingly bright, and then after a while, it looks like normal brightness.
These adaptive mechanisms are also applied by the brain to happiness.
Emotional levels also change from their current strength to neutral over time.
Adapting to anything is the basis of our lives.
The problem is that we forget that we ourselves are adapting to something.
This is especially true when it comes to predicting future happiness in relation to something.
It's about predicting the future, forgetting that something that is currently stimulating and happy will eventually fall to a neutral level.
Would winning the lottery make you happy? Buying that new car you've been wanting for a long time? Buying a top-of-the-line laptop? Buying a DMB-equipped cell phone? If your team wins the World Cup? Marrying that person you've been secretly in love with? Getting accepted to your dream college or job? Getting promoted at work at breakneck speed? Will that make you happy?
It seems like it would be natural, but unfortunately, when such things actually happen, we don't feel as happy as we might expect.
Why is that?
According to this book, this is because our imagination is fatally flawed.
You imagine that buying a new car will make you very happy, but that fantasy lacks the nagging boss, the friend asking to borrow money, and the parking war on the way home from work.
If I break up with my lover, I expect the shock of the sky falling if our country doesn't make it to the round of 16 in the World Cup, but we still get along well.
Isn't that right? Because we have a "psychological immune system," and from the moment something like that happens, we do everything we can to protect ourselves.
He consoles himself by saying, "I don't know if I've had many goodbyes to meet you," and highlights the "meaning of winning one away game."
But when we imagine the future, we never dream that our brains will do this.
In this book, Professor Daniel Gilbert, a renowned psychologist at Harvard University, reveals the fundamental reason why we ultimately fail to become happy despite making happiness our greatest goal and striving to achieve it.
According to him, the reason our predictions of happiness are always off is because of the 'emotional immune system' that humans developed during the evolutionary process to survive in the world.
That is, due to the body's adaptive mechanism, when we are placed in a new situation, the brain adapts to the situation and becomes neutral after a certain amount of time, but the brain's cognitive process overlooks that part.
It's like when you're in a dark theater during the day and come out, the world suddenly looks dazzlingly bright, and then after a while, it looks like normal brightness.
These adaptive mechanisms are also applied by the brain to happiness.
Emotional levels also change from their current strength to neutral over time.
Adapting to anything is the basis of our lives.
The problem is that we forget that we ourselves are adapting to something.
This is especially true when it comes to predicting future happiness in relation to something.
It's about predicting the future, forgetting that something that is currently stimulating and happy will eventually fall to a neutral level.
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index
Malcolm Gladwell's Recommendation_ Stumbling on Happiness by Malcolm Gladwell
Translator's Note: Happiness Trapped in Imagination
Author's Preface: Why is our happiness always so unexpected?
Part 1.
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Chapter 1_ Imagination, a Journey into the Future
The joy of thinking about 'next'
The monkey who can see into the future
Why do we imagine the future?
The joy of imagination
an intense need for control
Part 2.
subjectivity
Chapter 2_ Looking 'Outside' from 'Inside'
Different types of happiness
A happiness that cannot be explained to aliens
noble happiness
Happiness understood only with the head
Is happiness really comparable?
clumsy memory
We miss what's right in front of us
The Language of Happiness
Rori and Reba's illusion?
The power of irreversible experience
Chapter 3_ Looking 'Inside' from 'Outside'
Our ignorance of emotions
A human being who is unable to recognize the emotions he or she is actually experiencing
Is it possible to measure happiness?
Measure properly
Measure multiple times
Part 3.
realism
Chapter 4_ The Blind Spot in the Mind's Eye
The brain's magic that distorts reality
Memories filled by the brain
Experiences that the brain fills in
Confusion between reality and subjective experience
Encounter with Idealism
Escape from realism
What the brain didn't tell me
Chapter 5_ The Power of Non-Existent Things
The power of invisible information
The trait of ignoring things that do not currently exist
The fallacy of ignoring things that don't exist when imagining the future
Event Horizon
Part 4.
Presentism
Chapter 6_ Predicting the future with present experiences
The mistake of predicting tomorrow as similar to today
Presentism that works when recalling the past
Presentism in action when imagining the future
Features of prefeeling
The benefits of previewing
The limits of previewing
Chapter 7_ The fatal weakness of not being able to imagine time
Think of time as space
Thinking about the future from the present
Thoughts about the future begin and end in the present.
Comparison with the past
Compare with possible alternatives
Comparison and Presentism
Part 5.
rationalization
Chapter 8_ Our Own Paradise
The ambiguity of experience
How to resolve stimulus ambiguity
How to resolve the ambiguity of experience
Manipulating facts to one's advantage
Collect only facts that are favorable to oneself
Picking on facts that are unfavorable to you
Chapter 9_ Immunity to Reality
Predicting evaluations of the past
Factors that activate the psychological immune system
Intensity factor
Inevitable factors
The strong aftertaste of unexplained events
Part 6.
correction
Chapter 10_ Repeated Mistakes
Mistakes made because very rare events are easily remembered
The illusion of believing that all's well that ends well
The way we didn't choose
Chapter 11_ A Report of Life from Tomorrow
Super replicator
Myths about fingerprints
A clear solution
We reject that solution
Author's Note: There is no simple formula for finding happiness!
References
Translator's Note: Happiness Trapped in Imagination
Author's Preface: Why is our happiness always so unexpected?
Part 1.
view
Chapter 1_ Imagination, a Journey into the Future
The joy of thinking about 'next'
The monkey who can see into the future
Why do we imagine the future?
The joy of imagination
an intense need for control
Part 2.
subjectivity
Chapter 2_ Looking 'Outside' from 'Inside'
Different types of happiness
A happiness that cannot be explained to aliens
noble happiness
Happiness understood only with the head
Is happiness really comparable?
clumsy memory
We miss what's right in front of us
The Language of Happiness
Rori and Reba's illusion?
The power of irreversible experience
Chapter 3_ Looking 'Inside' from 'Outside'
Our ignorance of emotions
A human being who is unable to recognize the emotions he or she is actually experiencing
Is it possible to measure happiness?
Measure properly
Measure multiple times
Part 3.
realism
Chapter 4_ The Blind Spot in the Mind's Eye
The brain's magic that distorts reality
Memories filled by the brain
Experiences that the brain fills in
Confusion between reality and subjective experience
Encounter with Idealism
Escape from realism
What the brain didn't tell me
Chapter 5_ The Power of Non-Existent Things
The power of invisible information
The trait of ignoring things that do not currently exist
The fallacy of ignoring things that don't exist when imagining the future
Event Horizon
Part 4.
Presentism
Chapter 6_ Predicting the future with present experiences
The mistake of predicting tomorrow as similar to today
Presentism that works when recalling the past
Presentism in action when imagining the future
Features of prefeeling
The benefits of previewing
The limits of previewing
Chapter 7_ The fatal weakness of not being able to imagine time
Think of time as space
Thinking about the future from the present
Thoughts about the future begin and end in the present.
Comparison with the past
Compare with possible alternatives
Comparison and Presentism
Part 5.
rationalization
Chapter 8_ Our Own Paradise
The ambiguity of experience
How to resolve stimulus ambiguity
How to resolve the ambiguity of experience
Manipulating facts to one's advantage
Collect only facts that are favorable to oneself
Picking on facts that are unfavorable to you
Chapter 9_ Immunity to Reality
Predicting evaluations of the past
Factors that activate the psychological immune system
Intensity factor
Inevitable factors
The strong aftertaste of unexplained events
Part 6.
correction
Chapter 10_ Repeated Mistakes
Mistakes made because very rare events are easily remembered
The illusion of believing that all's well that ends well
The way we didn't choose
Chapter 11_ A Report of Life from Tomorrow
Super replicator
Myths about fingerprints
A clear solution
We reject that solution
Author's Note: There is no simple formula for finding happiness!
References
Publisher's Review
A brilliant insight into how our minds work! If you want to be happy, redraw the "map of happiness"!
This book presents a cognitive scientific interpretation based on empirical research results on happiness, and is a masterpiece that creates a new dimension of happiness studies by sharply dissecting the endless challenges and desires between humans and happiness.
In this book, Professor Daniel Gilbert, a renowned psychologist at Harvard University, explains why we make happiness our greatest goal and strive to achieve it, yet we inevitably move further and further away from it.
He presents cutting-edge research findings from various fields, including psychology, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics, demonstrating the unique human ability to imagine the future.
He also shatters conventional wisdom about happiness in a fascinating and disconcerting way, leading us into a world of profound insights into how our minds work.
Isn't there a way to live rationally, wisely, and happily in the present by accurately predicting future happiness? We need to redraw our psychological map, and even more so, our map of happiness.
How can we redraw the map of happiness properly? First, we must clearly understand the essence of the map we've been using so far.
This book will bring about a tectonic shift in your stereotypes and outdated knowledge about human psychology and happiness, which you have taken for granted, like Ptolemy's geocentric theory.
is a profound and informative book that opens up new horizons of knowledge about human psychology and happiness.
But this book is not as stiff or heavy as other humanities books, nor is it boring.
As evidenced by his background as a science fiction writer before becoming a psychology professor, Professor Gilbert draws readers into his books with a delightful, lively, witty, and vibrant writing style.
If you are tempted by the 'bait of knowledge' that he constantly throws out and diligently pursue it, you will soon find yourself drawing a map of a completely new level of happiness that you have never experienced before in your head.
As Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman said, “It’s not often in our lives that we get the opportunity to read a book that’s both so entertaining and so profoundly valuable.” Gilbert penetrates the essence of happiness in a unique and creative way that no one has ever imagined before.
If you've read countless books on happiness and still feel a sense of emptiness, read this book! And shatter your old happiness paradigm!
The secret to happiness, revealed through brilliant psychological experiments and insightful research!
*Why does not knowing who your crush is bring you greater happiness than knowing who they are?
*Why do I feel more sexually attracted to a woman I meet while crossing a precariously shaky bridge than to a woman I meet after crossing it?
*Why is it easier to forgive a lover or spouse for cheating than for leaving a pile of dishes in the sink?
*When eating with colleagues, why do people choose a different dish from their partner's instead of the dish they really wanted to eat?
*Why are shoppers less dissatisfied with their purchases if they don't get a refund than if they do?
This book presents a cognitive scientific interpretation based on empirical research results on happiness, and is a masterpiece that creates a new dimension of happiness studies by sharply dissecting the endless challenges and desires between humans and happiness.
In this book, Professor Daniel Gilbert, a renowned psychologist at Harvard University, explains why we make happiness our greatest goal and strive to achieve it, yet we inevitably move further and further away from it.
He presents cutting-edge research findings from various fields, including psychology, philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics, demonstrating the unique human ability to imagine the future.
He also shatters conventional wisdom about happiness in a fascinating and disconcerting way, leading us into a world of profound insights into how our minds work.
Isn't there a way to live rationally, wisely, and happily in the present by accurately predicting future happiness? We need to redraw our psychological map, and even more so, our map of happiness.
How can we redraw the map of happiness properly? First, we must clearly understand the essence of the map we've been using so far.
This book will bring about a tectonic shift in your stereotypes and outdated knowledge about human psychology and happiness, which you have taken for granted, like Ptolemy's geocentric theory.
is a profound and informative book that opens up new horizons of knowledge about human psychology and happiness.
But this book is not as stiff or heavy as other humanities books, nor is it boring.
As evidenced by his background as a science fiction writer before becoming a psychology professor, Professor Gilbert draws readers into his books with a delightful, lively, witty, and vibrant writing style.
If you are tempted by the 'bait of knowledge' that he constantly throws out and diligently pursue it, you will soon find yourself drawing a map of a completely new level of happiness that you have never experienced before in your head.
As Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman said, “It’s not often in our lives that we get the opportunity to read a book that’s both so entertaining and so profoundly valuable.” Gilbert penetrates the essence of happiness in a unique and creative way that no one has ever imagined before.
If you've read countless books on happiness and still feel a sense of emptiness, read this book! And shatter your old happiness paradigm!
The secret to happiness, revealed through brilliant psychological experiments and insightful research!
*Why does not knowing who your crush is bring you greater happiness than knowing who they are?
*Why do I feel more sexually attracted to a woman I meet while crossing a precariously shaky bridge than to a woman I meet after crossing it?
*Why is it easier to forgive a lover or spouse for cheating than for leaving a pile of dishes in the sink?
*When eating with colleagues, why do people choose a different dish from their partner's instead of the dish they really wanted to eat?
*Why are shoppers less dissatisfied with their purchases if they don't get a refund than if they do?
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: October 30, 2006
- Page count, weight, size: 372 pages | 626g | 153*224*30mm
- ISBN13: 9788934923220
- ISBN10: 8934923229
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