Summary of Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness

Please note:This audiobook has been generated using AI Voice. This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future. We are the only creatures that can use language, use tools, and think about the past and present, and we do this all while making decisions. #2 The human brain's greatest achievement 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. #3 Our brains are constantly making predictions about the immediate, local, personal future of our owners without our owners' awareness.
These are called predictions, but they are not really predictions in the same sense that we might predict the annual rate of inflation or the intellectual impact of postmodernism. #4 Our brains are designed to make predictions about the immediate future, but we make a variety of future predictions that are not automatic, continuous, or nonconscious. We predict how things will feel, look, and sound next, based on our past experiences.