Stumbling on Happiness: An insightful neuroscience self-help psychology book on cognitive enhancement and human behavior

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.

The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.