Interview Transcript
Question: Beyond a simple title, how would you describe what you do for a living?
Dan Gilbert: Well I’m a professor, which means I’m a teacher and a researcher. And as a teacher I spend lots of time with young people – undergraduates and graduate students – training them . . . teaching them and training them for their later profession. As a researcher, I spend most of my time trying to understand why people are so damn bad at figuring out what will make them happy in the future.
Recorded on: 6/12/07
What do you do?
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Gilbert talks about why we're so bad at predicting what makes us happy.
November 6, 2007 | In Love, Sex, & Happiness
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kenneth holmes on July 25, 2009, 9:40 AM
Spreading ideas is never easy,most people have fixed ideas,for a very good reason,to protect their Ego.You build your Ego up,and subconscious mind will try to protect it. What do you thnk of that idea?Rubbish.I know.If you respond ,it will be to designed to destroy my Ego.All my ideas are attacked. Will I end up with Ego on my face?kenneth.Notice the Small k.it is Freudian slip.
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