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In Short, We Derive Support For Our Preferred Conclusions By Listening To The Words That We Put In The Mouths Of People Who Have Already Been Preselected For Their Willingness To Say What We Want To Hear.

Few Of Us Can Accurately Gauge How We Will Feel Tomorrow Or Next Week. That's Why When You Go To The Supermarket On An Empty Stomach, You'll Buy Too Much, And If You Shop After A Big Meal, You'll Buy Too Little.

Everyone Who Has Observed Human Behavior For More Than Thirty Continuous Seconds Seems To Have Noticed That People Are Strongly, Perhaps Even Primarily, Perhaps Even Single-mindedly, Motivated To Feel Happy.

Reality' Is A Movie Generated By Our Brains. Because We Don't Realize This, We Are Far Too Confident That The Stuff Appearing In The Movie Is Actually 'out There' In The World When, In Fact, It's Not.

We All Have Direct Experience With Things That Do Or Don't Make Us Happy, We All Have Friends, Therapists, Cabdrivers, And Talk-show Hosts Who Tell Us About Things That Will Or Won't Make Us Happy, And Yet, Despite All This Practice And All This Coaching, Our Search For Happiness Often Culminates In A Stinky Mess. We Expect The Next Car, The Next House, Or The Next Promotion To Make Us Happy Even Though The Last Ones Didn't And Even Though Others Keep Telling Us That The Next Ones Won't.