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Daniel T. Gilbert: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Daniel T. Gilbert, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• People consistently overestimate how long heartbreak will actually hurt

  Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson found that people are reliably bad at predicting how long an emotional event, good or bad, will affect them, a bias they called durability bias. W…

  — Timothy D. Wilson and Daniel T. Gilbert, Affective Forecasting

• People believe they've finished changing as a person — at every age

  Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson surveyed over 19,000 people aged 18 to 68 about their personality, values and preferences, looking both backward and forward. At …

  — Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel T. Gilbert & Timothy D. Wilson, The End of History Illusion

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