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Layers of limitations to happiness: Layer 5: Not Harmonizing Joy with your TWO-SELVES

Your Experiencing-Self Versus Your Remembering-Self

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Harmonizing Joy with your TWO-SELVES

Time: Your Experiencing-self Versus Your Remembering-self

Question: You are anticipating to go on an amazing vacation. Do you imagine it in the form of feeling the experience itself or in the form of the memory you are going to get from it? 

Our Experiencing Self…

What if I lived in a city like Florence? Florence, Italy.

Where the streets are lined with eyes that have witnessed the turning of the century, where the canals know the secrets of history, where the renaissance caught fire, where great men have died and were born in, where wars were kindled and golden ages died out.

What if I lived in a conspicuous city? A flamboyant, golden, shining city.

A one unlike where I am, but somewhere great minds have walked, cut steak, sipped coffee and tea. A city that is the birthplace of fantastic epics and sparks of magic. A city where heroes were made into puppets by gods and goddesses. A city where legendary ships have docked and set sail to look for better shores, hidden treasure or a maiden to rescue.

What a life I would lead.

How do we make judgements and how could we do it better?

Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman shows us that we often act irrationally because we have two competing selves – our intuitive, fast-thinking system and a more rational and slower-thinking one.

British philosopher Julian Baggini believes we don’t have a single self at all, but a bundle of traits which we can nurture and improve.