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The Unhappy Millionaire

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Getting Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams

We miss the critical details of almost any good event we try to simulate. Dan has shown there's a nasty consequence to missing these important details. It means our emotional predictions of how these events will feel are way off track. Would you rather have a week end in paris or gum sir ry? Is kind of a one item i c test. And almost everybody gets that right. But what they don't realize is that the weekend in paris won't be as good as they think it will be, and the good feelings won't last as long as they expect. These tumorous predictions were christened impact bias.

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