🧠 The human brain has tripled in size in two million years, leading to the development of the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex.
🤔 The prefrontal cortex allows humans to simulate experiences in their heads before trying them out in real life, a unique adaptation.
💰🦽 Contrary to expectations, data shows that lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives one year later.
😲 The impact bias leads us to believe that different outcomes are more different than they actually are.
🧠 Humans have a psychological immune system that helps them change their views to feel better about their circumstances.
😊 People have the ability to synthesize happiness and can find happiness even in difficult situations.
🔑 Happiness can be found in unexpected places and circumstances, such as in the case of Maurice Victim, who found his 37-year prison experience 'glorious'.
💡 Synthetic happiness, which is created when we don't get what we wanted, can be just as fulfilling as natural happiness.
🌟 Society tends to undervalue synthetic happiness, but it can lead to a fulfilling and contented life.
🔑 Synthetic happiness is just as real and enduring as happiness achieved from getting what you want.
📊 The free choice paradigm experiment demonstrates how people synthesize happiness when given a choice between options.
🧠 Patients with antara grade amnesia also exhibit synthesized happiness in the same way as regular individuals.
😮 Amnesia patients have difficulty recognizing their own choices.
🌈 Synthetic happiness enables us to change our reactions to experiences.
🗽 Freedom to choose and change our minds enhances natural happiness.
📸 In an experiment at Harvard, students were given cameras and took pictures of meaningful things to them.
↔️ Half of the students were given the option to change their chosen picture, while the other half were told they could never see their picture again.
😊 Students who were stuck with their picture and had no choice ended up liking it more, while those in the reversible condition were uncertain and unhappy with their choice.
⭐ People often make choices that lead to dissatisfaction because they don't know what conditions lead to synthetic happiness.
💡 Adam Smith suggests that while some situations may be preferred over others, overrating the difference between them can lead to misery and disorder in human life.
🌟 Our longings and worries are often exaggerated, as we have the capacity to create happiness from within when we choose our experiences wisely.
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