Happiness is discussed as the new direction of the future. In September 2008 the Danish Institute for Future Research, is writing about how the modern society is changing from the great stories to the task of creating your own life from birth till end. Because we have few instructions to live accordingly, happiness become more important than ever.
Similar Daniel Gilbert writes in 2007, Stumbling on Happiness: "For most of recorded history, people lived where they were born, did what they parents had done and associated with those who were doing the same. But the agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions changed all that, and the resulting explosion of personal liberty has created a bewildering array of options, alternatives, choices and decisions that our ancestors never faced. For the very first time, our happiness is in our hands" (Gilbert, 2007:259).
Daniel Gilbert argues that the greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine the future - episodes and objects which do not exist. This unique ability support humans to find happiness. To look into the future, learn from mistakes without making them and evaluate actions without taking them. We allow ourselves to be in the future and ask how it feels to be there.
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