When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

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.

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.