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Research Suggests That People Are Typically Unaware Of The Reasons Why They Are Doing What They Are Doing, But When Asked For A Reason, They Readily Supply One.

What’s So Curious About Human Beings Is That We Can Look Deeply Into The Future, Foresee Disaster, And Still Do Nothing In The Present To Stop It. The Majority Of People On This Planet, They’re Overwhelmed With Concerns About Their Immediate Well Being.

The Price We Pay For Our Irresponsible Explanatory Urge Is That We Often Spoil Our Most Pleasant Experiences By Making Good Sense Of Them.

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.

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage