We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.Daniel Todd Gilbert
We insist on steering our boats because we think we have a pretty good idea of where we should go, but the truth is that much of our steering is in vain.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.Daniel Todd Gilbert
The human being is the only animal that thinks about the future.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Though we are proud of our capacity to think we tend to overrate it; through much of our careering around the place, we’re not actually thinking at all.Daniel Todd Gilbert
What you have now is not nearly as good as what you will have then.Daniel Todd Gilbert
The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Without prospection, we’re blind in time.Daniel Todd Gilbert
For most of recorded history, people lived where they were born, did what their parents had done, and associated with those who were doing the same.Daniel Todd Gilbert
If we were to experience tomorrow what we were experiencing today, we would be extremely surprised.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Our desire to control is so powerful, and the feeling of being in control so rewarding, that people often act as though they can control the uncontrollable.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Imagination has a hard time telling us how we will think about the future when we get there.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Anything less than the death of one’s child is a mosquito bite on the behind of humanity.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.Daniel Todd Gilbert
When the brain picks a conclusion first, then it tends to see what it wants to see.Daniel Todd Gilbert
The surprising reality is that our best and our worst experiences don't actually affect us for a particularly long time.Daniel Todd Gilbert
The human being is the only animal that contemplates future.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Feeling in control - whether we are or not - can contribute to our well-being.Daniel Todd Gilbert
We are forced to steer our boat through a fogbank in which only a few feet of the journey can be seen at a time.Daniel Todd Gilbert
Throughout our history as a species, we lived much like every other animal, experiencing and reacting to the world in the present tense.Daniel Todd Gilbert