&432/ Watch to Be Inspired: Out Of the Trees and Into the Shopping Malls

There is something learned to be happy from these people. The synthesis of happiness.

Citing TED.com:

• The talk. "Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned."
• The speaker. "Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us have the wrong map. In the same way that optical illusions fool our eyes — and fool everyone's eyes in the same way — Gilbert argues that our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. And these quirks in our cognition make humans very poor predictors of our own bliss."

TED 2004, Dan Gilbert. View the talk!