{"id":9081,"date":"2012-06-21T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2012-06-21T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:00:39","slug":"feelgood-quickie-do-we-wrongly-predict-what-makes-us-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/feelgood-quickie-do-we-wrongly-predict-what-makes-us-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelgood Quickie: Do We Wrongly Predict What Makes Us Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/2012\/06\/21\/feelgood-quickie-do-we-wrongly-predict-what-makes-us-happy\/img_1745\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9082\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9082\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/files\/2012\/06\/IMG_1745-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"why are we happy?\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4q1dgn_C0AU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/dan_gilbert.html\">Dan Gilbert<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/dan_gilbert.html\">Stumbling on Happiness<\/a>, explains how our our &#8220;psychological immune system&#8221; lets us feel truly happy even when things don\u2019t go as planned. He challenges the idea that we\u2019ll be miserable if we don\u2019t get what we want, and explains that our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Gilbert, the author of Stumbling on Happiness, explains how our our &#8220;psychological immune system&#8221; lets us feel truly happy even when things don\u2019t go as planned. He challenges the idea that we\u2019ll be miserable if we don\u2019t get what we want, and explains that our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong.  <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/feelgood-quickie-do-we-wrongly-predict-what-makes-us-happy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":9082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[5642,661],"tags":[427,5665],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_1745.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}