How can I be more happy?

Answer: Stop miswanting things. That is, stop wanting things that won’t make you happy even though you think they will.

Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States by Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson

Collection of Daniel Kahneman videos

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12185

Heuristics guiding our decision-making

From Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking: Fast and Slow:

  1. Affect heuristic: “where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.” (p 12)

What are the common cognitive biases and logic fallacies I probably suffer from without realizing?

Answer: There are heaps of these — maybe a hundred or so? Watch these videos to learn about some of them.

A fun song introduction to the common cognitive biases:

This video uses someone’s short speech to illustrate several common biases:

This video explains how we are biased towards seeing patterns and order where none exists:

This video explains how we are biased towards living in the pleasurable present rather than working towards a sensible future: