Dan Gilbert : The surprising science of happiness

It's continuing very nostalgic stories somehow.

Dan Gilbert at TED2004
The surprising science of happiness  (transcript)
Summary
These are the thoughts that the speaker researched. I think that it's important for us is what we do after reading this and the researched results might be changed by time, generation, and especially whether people often use smartphones or computers or not.

In this story, the speaker tells us that happiness can be synthesized. It's a psychological immune system all people have, it's non-conscious cognitive processes, and it helps us change our views of the world.

However, we seem to think that synthetic happiness doesn't have the same quality that natural happiness has and in fact, synthetic happiness is always puzzled by freedom to choose, a lot of choices, changing, reversible conditions, and making your decisions,

At last, he said to us what he wanted to tell us was surprisingly our longings and worries were always manufactured and overblown within us, thus we continue chasing something after choosing something.

It must tell us that we can't be happy when we seek happiness.