TED: How to make happiness

I think psychologist Dan Gilbert offers some startling perspectives on happiness in this talk. He can be a little convoluted at times but it's worth watching more than once.

Most interesting was the value of synthetic happiness, which is human's ability to feel good about a situation even when it seems impossible.

Gilbert also shows how choice can be the enemy of happiness.

He has another talk that I plan to share soon so if you don't like this one you probably want to mark it boring.