Stumbling on Happiness

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.

thinking about the future can be so pleasurable that sometimes we’d rather think about it than get there.

Apparently, gaining control can have a positive impact on one’s health and well-being, but losing control can be worse than never having had any at all.

Por eso cuabdo l gente se retira se van para abajo

When the word happy is followed by the words that or about, speakers are usually trying to tell us that we ought to take the word happy as an indication not of their feelings but rather of their stances.