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We humans are not very good at imagining how we will feel in the future.
The fact is, we are all terrible at imagining how we will feel in the future.
"We had to think about how we will feel freedom and so we have space".
We don't know what we will do and how we will feel.
The problem, as Gilbert and company have come to discover, is that we falter when it comes to imagining how we will feel about something in the future.
We are notoriously bad at predicting how we will feel or behave in some future scenario, and we are similarly bad at working out why we feel the way we do, or even why we have behaved a certain way.
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MICHAEL I don't know what's in our future, or how we'll feel 10 years from now about working at the same company.
Here Ms. Hammond relies on the psychologist Daniel Gilbert, who has found that when predicting how we'll feel in the years to come, we tend to dwell on extreme cases from the past, not typical ones.
When we cook for ourselves, we decide how we'll feel every day.
When we evaluate risks we're often not thinking of the objective likelihood of a bad thing happening, but how terrible we will feel if it does happen and we did not take steps to prevent it.
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