It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

Ten minutes of a smartphone in front of your nose is about the equivalent of an hour long walk in bright daylight. Imagine going for an hour long walk in bright daylight and then thinking, "Now I'll get some sleep." It ain't going to happen.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.