01 March 2010

The riddle of experience vs. memory: Daniel Kahneman on TED.com

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — and our own self-awareness. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 20:07)

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WR Rings
Mar 1 2010
Daniel Kahneman again proved Old is Gold. Wedding Rings
Roni Kristanto
Mar 2 2010
the world is controlled by 2 major languages: language of feeling & the reality. if both have the same value or weight of a balanced (resulting stack, while the world needs to power the motion). Where is the highest interruption between them.
Daniel Nofal
Mar 2 2010
When I heard Daniel Kahneman while at Long Beach I was dissapointed somehow. Maybe I expected more of such a great character. I have read some of his work. After while, the dialogue between a remembering self and a experiencing self has become something that altered my way of thinking in a different way about many activities I do. In short, I think his talk, although not the most fun, the most emotional, the most remembered, was, at last, life changing.
David Sherr
Mar 5 2010
Remarkable clarity. If we are in an economy of experience, the right way to think of it is the economy of the memory of experience.
Jany robert
Mar 8 2010
What a great speech .I was very impressed with it.
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