heyjamie

I’ve been sick for the past week but I don’t do sick very well, so even though I’m immobilized physically I still want to be somewhat productive. As such, I’ve been watching tons of “Tedtalks.” I’d probably watched about 10 or 15 of them when I came across one that I found very relevant to the way I live my life.

TED Talks

In it, Daniel Kahneman discusses the pursuit of Happiness. Not necessarily how we achieve it but how we find it in our experiences and subsequently our memories. Experiences create memory but there is a distinct difference between the two because we put so much more weight on memory versus the experience. Kahneman says, “Time is the critical variable that differentiates our experiencing self from our remembering self…time has very little impact on the story.” So if we change the way we look at time, most notably as this thing that seems to pass us by too quickly or something we never have enough of, and instead recognize its non-importance—I’m certain therein lies a key to happiness. We don’t have the capacity to remember everything, so our