When people think about happiness, everyone wants to be happy, but it is sometimes difficult. In the lecture, Daniel explains that why it is hard is because of traps. There are three main cognitive traps which are reluctance to admit complexity, a confusion between experience and memory, and the focusing on illusion.
Many people think experience and memory are same but acutually different. The main difference between them is the vision between experiencing self and remembering self. Experiencing self is living in the present, and remembering self is living in the past; for instance, if s/he feels bad in the end of the experience, the whole memory changes to bad memory even though it is a good experience in the beginning. So that, remembering self is moreinportant than experience self.
Momoko, this is a great short summary, and you correctly identified the main focus, too: namely, the contrast of "the" experiencing self and "the" remembering self. (Try to remember to use the definite article with these two phrases. ;-) )
ReplyDeleteI think it is fascinating that we have to know the difference between memory and experience. I never have thought in that way, but it seems like all true!
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