Most Of Us Appear To Believe That

I Have Everything That I Could Possibly Want In Life, From A Gorgeous Granddaughter And A Wonderful Wife, Brilliant Students, The Best Job Anyone Could Hope For, And About Half Of My Hair. Not The Half I Would Have Kept, But No One Consulted Me.

Alas, We Think Of Ourselves As Unique Entities-minds Unlike Any Others-and Thus We Often Reject The Lessons That The Emotional Experience Of Others Has To Teach Us.

The Secret Of Happiness Is Variety, But The Secret Of Variety, Like The Secret Of All Spices, Is Knowing When To Use It.

Our Inability To Recall How We Really Felt Is Why Our Wealth Of Experiences Turns Out To Be Poverty Of Riches.

The Mistakes We Make When We Try To Imagine Our Personal Futures Are Also Lawful, Regular, And Systematic. They, Too, Have A Pattern That Tells Us About The Powers And Limits Of Foresight In Much The Same Way That Optical Illusions Tell Us About The Powers And Limits Of Eyesight.