William B. Irvine Quotes

According To Psychologists Daniel Gilbert And Timothy Wilson, We Have An Unfortunate Tendency To "miswant" - To Want Things That We Won't Like Once We Get Them. "In A Perfect World," They Observe, "wanting Would Cause Trying, Trying Would Cause Getting, [and] Getting Would Cause Liking."20 But Ours Is Not A Perfect World. In Particular, Our Predictions About What We Will Like Tend To Be Mistaken, And As A Result, We Tend To Want Things That, When We Get Them, Will Make Little Difference To Our Level Of Happiness. (The

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