3_3_Annoying Feature No.1-Miswanting

Good job, lots of money, awesome stuff, true love, perfect body, perfect grades, we make the prediction that these things are going to make us really happy.But in practice, they either don't, or they don't make us as happy as we think. 

己所欲，非常乐。我们预想的会使人开心的东西，事实上的体验并没有想象中那么愉悦。

Annoying Feature #1

Our minds’ strongest intuitions are often totally wrong

Gilbert & Wilson (2000). ”Miswanting: Some problems in the forecasting of future affective states.” In Thinking and feeling: The role of affect in social cognition. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Pages 178-197.

This book excerpt defines miswanting which is the act of being mistaken about what and how much you will like something in the future.

对于想要得到的东西以及渴望程度的预判会有偏差。