Daniel Kahneman gave one of the most brilliant talks about happiness in TED. He explained that, many scholars did many research about what is happiness, yet no one actually succeeded in giving it an accurate definition. In his talk he explained that happiness is divided into two parts, which is responsible for why people have different views about happiness. One is the experiencing self (happy in your life) and the other one is remembering self (happy about your life). According to Kahneman, people are more often relying on remembering self and neglecting the experiencing self. The interesting fact about experiencing self it is all about the ending. People would decide if they were happy or not in accordance with how the memory ended. If it has a pleasant ending then it is a happy moment and if not then it is an unhappy memory.
Good, Sabha! The central point is, indeed, about our experiencing self and our remembering self--and how each requires different things to make it happy.
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