Our Inability To Recall How

Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage.

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.

The Truth Is, Bad Things Don't Affect Us As Profoundly As We Expect Them To. That's True Of Good Things, Too. We Adapt Very Quickly To Either.

Happiness Refers To Feelings, Virtue Refers To Actions, And Those Actions Can Cause Those Feelings. But Not Necessarily And Not Exclusively.

If Someone Offered You A Pill That Would Make You Permanently Happy, You Would Be Well Advised To Run Fast And Run Far. Emotion Is A Compass That Tells Us What To Do, And A Compass That Perpetually Stuck On North Is Worthless.