http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/24/true-enough-by-farhad-manjoo/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/24/true-enough-by-farhad-manjoo/comment-page-1/#comment-167487 Philip Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:08:07 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/24/true-enough-by-farhad-manjoo/#comment-167487 If you liked this you may also like one I recently read along a similar vein. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert takes apart how our perceptions of past, present and future differ from reality... once again concluding in the end that we see what we want to see. There is a link on his publisher's website to a teaching guide to the book that gives a good synopsis of the chapter themes. I've read a few on this tendency to filter information that matches what we already believe, but Gilbert raised my eyebrows more than once and now I may believe my wife when she insists that I remember something differently than she does (note I said may not will). An entertaining read. If you liked this you may also like one I recently read along a similar vein. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert takes apart how our perceptions of past, present and future differ from reality… once again concluding in the end that we see what we want to see. There is a link on his publisher’s website to a teaching guide to the book that gives a good synopsis of the chapter themes. I’ve read a few on this tendency to filter information that matches what we already believe, but Gilbert raised my eyebrows more than once and now I may believe my wife when she insists that I remember something differently than she does (note I said may not will). An entertaining read.

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