The (misguided) Pursuit of Happiness - Dan Gilbert

Dan talks about how we anticipate life events making us happy but that in reality, it is our view of what happens to us - our attitudes that bring on happy feelings. This is important and is the reason Buddhism’s fruit can be harvested. Happiness comes from within.

We synthesize happiness, but we think happiness is a thing to be found

So what are you doing to make yourself happy?

The great source of both misery and disorders of human life seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Some of those situations may no doubt deserve to be prefered to others but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice - Adam Smith