alexflint comments on TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alexflint 08 March 2010 07:23:55PM 3 points [-]

For me, the most striking observation was that we often spend a tiny amount of time enjoying the memory of an experience relative to the amount of time we spent experiencing it in the first place. I think that even my favourite memories would have given me no more than a few hours total enjoyment time over my lifetime. Yet Kahneman correctly points out that many of our actions are geared towards optimizing the memories we get. This seems like a cognitive bias that we would do well to overcome.