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The Surprising Science of

- Dan Gilbert

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Vs.

What’s the difference between YOU and an ANIMAL?

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Your Prefrontal cortex - capable of an experience simulator

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What it means to have an experience simulator?

You can simulate experiences in head before performing them in

actual life

For example: You would say ‘Yuk!’ to the onion flavored ice-cream even before tasting it

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Let’s take a Quiz: Contemplate and choose the futures you would like to have for yourself

1. Win a Lottery 2. Become paraplegic

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Your experience simulator starts working and you certainly choose to win the lottery and expect it to be the source of

happiness

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The experiment conducted shows that Lottery winners and the paraplegics are equally happy after 1 year

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However… The statistics from the experiment shows different result!

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Reason: The Impact Bias - The tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events

This means your simulator works badly, thinks of very short term

Research says that any traumatic incident whatsoever it is has impact which lasts not more than 3 months

Why? - Because happiness can be synthesized

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Humans have non-cognitive process which help us change views about the world in order to feel better

What is synthetic happiness?

So all you have to do is ‘To change your views about the world/ objects /your life events’

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Some beliefs about synthetic happiness

Synthetic happiness is

of an inferior kind

Synthetic happiness does

not have the same quality as

the natural happiness

But this may seem fake/ unnatural

/ineffective for me

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The experimental data shows that synthetic happiness is as good as the happiness you get when you achieve what you really wanted

Well it might seem unnatural but it is not ineffective

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All you need to do is ‘Change the views about the events/world’

This concludes that Synthetic happiness is real!

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Infact it’s not necessary to synthesize happiness

all the time

So why don’t you synthesize happiness all the time?

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When you are really stuck and don’t have any

choice/chance to achieve what you want

When to synthesize happiness?

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Yes…we should!

Shouldn’t we have preference in our lives that will lead us to one future over another?

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When this preference drives us too hard or too fast there’s a problem

When is there a problem with our preference?

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The problem is we have over-rated the differences between the two futures!!

When our ambition is bounded we tend to work

joyfully! When it is unbounded we tend to lie,

cheat, hurt others, sacrifice things of real value

When our fears are bounded we are

cautious, when they are unbounded we are

cowardly

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Project Submitted by -Neha Dhobale

Student, IIM [email protected]

Under the guidance of –Prof. Sameer Mathur

Marketing Professor, IIM LucknowPh.D., Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.mbaskills.in/

Thank You!

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1dgn_C0AU