Although I do not own a television set, my wife and I watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report every night, online. A couple of days ago Colbert had Daniel Gilbert on. Gilbert is a professor of Psychology at the Harvard main campus and has recently written a great book, Stumbling on Happiness. I had met Gilbert last year at a Seed dinner and saw him speak at an Edge/Seed sponsored round-table. His studies into happiness and affective forecasting are very insightful. To read previous posts on this subject click here, here, here and here.
(The clip from the Colbert Report is bellow the fold.)
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