In this talk from TED 2010, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman — the founder of behavioral economics — explains how we confuse experience and memory in the pursuit of happiness.
That is, being happy in your life is different than being happy about your life.
Kahneman says our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently, and elaborates on how this affects economics, public policy and our own self-awareness.
Here’s his lecture:
