When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

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

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.