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

If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.