•1. The human brain has tripled in mass over the last two million years. •2. With the gaining in mass the brain also gained new structures. •3. Everyone fails all the time. •4. Happiness can be synthesized. •5. Synthetic happiness is what you get when you don’t get what you want, while natural happiness is when you get what you want. Dan Gilbert is taking a very comedic approach. “Don’t ever join the beetles” being an example of happiness in one of his slides. He talks with his hands quite a bit. Also uses power-point slides to get his point across, and to show the information he has gathered through graphs and data. Weakness: Makes the presentation rushed (talks too fast) and was very monotone throughout the whole presentation.
Joshua And Kimberly 5 Key Points • Talked about brains. o Prefrontal cortex: Experience simulator. • Impact biases o Tendency for the simulator to overestimate • Happiness o Two types of Happiness Synthetic Happiness • People think that happiness must be found • Used amnesiacs in test with Monẻt painting and found that they have the same results as non-amnesiacs Natural Happiness • Freedom to choose o Is the enemy of the synthetic happiness • Ambitions o If its unbounded we are free spirited o If bounded we are very cautious Something about the style of the presentation. • Made the audience experience and brought them in with actual participation. • Brought actual examples to the presentation • Make the audience laugh and enjoy • A lot of examples and data To me there really wasn’t any weakness in his presentation. He was enjoyable and interesting. Had a lot of fun with it, Very exciting person.
*Synthesized Happiness – when we don’t get what want *Natural Happiness -- when we get what we want *On average, nothing is average *Joy of being stuck *Choosing joylessness
His presentation consisted of a large vocabulary and a lot of rhetoric. He also mixed in medium and low style language with his humor. His weakness was that his presentation was fast and hard to get up with.
Five key points: 1. Humans have the ability to simulate happiness 2. Impact bias; when predicting outcomes, one’s decision can be influenced by a flawed perception of future happiness. 3. Freedom is good for real happiness, but not for synthetic happiness. 4. Synthetic happiness is as real as true happiness. 5. When our decisions are limited, we will be happy; but when we are given options, we will be constantly seeking joy. Presentation: He was cordial, connected to the audience, comedic, frequent hand gestures, utilizes experimental data and statistics for understandability Weakness: spoke kind of quickly
In Dan Gilberts ted talk, he focuses on the thought of synthetic vs real happiness. People in today’s world create a synthetic happiness when they do not get the true real happiness that they desired. He used many social experiments to prove his theory. First he starts with showing two scenarios, a person winning the lottery and one who is a paraplegic and asks people to choose which scenario they would rather be in. Almost all picked the lottery winner, but after a year has passed, both lottery winner and paraplegic showed the same levels of happiness. Then he proceeds to show examples of people who synthesize happiness, for example a man who was essentially cut from the Beatles crew and says that he is way happier than he would have been with them.
1. Evolution 2. Experience simulators 3. Synthetic Happiness 4. Natural Happiness 5. Irreversible condition to synthesis of happiness Mr. Gilbert presentations was expressed in Middle Style. He was laid back in a sense that he wore blue jeans, implemented jokes, and used four letter words yet he was very professional by using statistics, research, and poetry. We believe Mr. Gilberts main weakness is in his ability to talk to fast. Talking to fast will hinder the ability of his message to reach certain viewers. Amy, Neisha, Michael
5 key points: 1. Our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. 2. Human beings are forever wrongly predicting what will make them happy. 3. Synthetic Happiness vs. Natural Happiness. 4. The unanticipated joy of being totally stuck. 5. Tragically truth.
He was talking to fast and distraction on the stage were some of his weakness.
1. Evolution of the human brain – Form of the frontal cortex 2. Impact biases – Tendency for the simulator to overestimate 3. Happiness –Synthetic and Natural Happiness 4. Freedom to choose – enemy of synthetic happiness 5. Ambitions – if it’s unbounded we are free spirited. If bounded we are cautious.
•1. The human brain has tripled in mass over the last two million years.
ReplyDelete•2. With the gaining in mass the brain also gained new structures.
•3. Everyone fails all the time.
•4. Happiness can be synthesized.
•5. Synthetic happiness is what you get when you don’t get what you want, while natural happiness is when you get what you want.
Dan Gilbert is taking a very comedic approach. “Don’t ever join the beetles” being an example of happiness in one of his slides. He talks with his hands quite a bit. Also uses power-point slides to get his point across, and to show the information he has gathered through graphs and data.
Weakness: Makes the presentation rushed (talks too fast) and was very monotone throughout the whole presentation.
Joshua And Kimberly
ReplyDelete5 Key Points
• Talked about brains.
o Prefrontal cortex: Experience simulator.
• Impact biases
o Tendency for the simulator to overestimate
• Happiness
o Two types of Happiness
Synthetic Happiness
• People think that happiness must be found
• Used amnesiacs in test with Monẻt painting and found that they have the same results as non-amnesiacs
Natural Happiness
• Freedom to choose
o Is the enemy of the synthetic happiness
• Ambitions
o If its unbounded we are free spirited
o If bounded we are very cautious
Something about the style of the presentation.
• Made the audience experience and brought them in with actual participation.
• Brought actual examples to the presentation
• Make the audience laugh and enjoy
• A lot of examples and data
To me there really wasn’t any weakness in his presentation. He was enjoyable and interesting. Had a lot of fun with it, Very exciting person.
*Synthesized Happiness – when we don’t get what want
ReplyDelete*Natural Happiness -- when we get what we want
*On average, nothing is average
*Joy of being stuck
*Choosing joylessness
His presentation consisted of a large vocabulary and a lot of rhetoric. He also mixed in medium and low style language with his humor. His weakness was that his presentation was fast and hard to get up with.
Five key points:
ReplyDelete1. Humans have the ability to simulate happiness
2. Impact bias; when predicting outcomes, one’s decision can be influenced by a flawed perception of future happiness.
3. Freedom is good for real happiness, but not for synthetic happiness.
4. Synthetic happiness is as real as true happiness.
5. When our decisions are limited, we will be happy; but when we are given options, we will be constantly seeking joy.
Presentation:
He was cordial, connected to the audience, comedic, frequent hand gestures, utilizes experimental data and statistics for understandability
Weakness: spoke kind of quickly
In Dan Gilberts ted talk, he focuses on the thought of synthetic vs real happiness. People in today’s world create a synthetic happiness when they do not get the true real happiness that they desired. He used many social experiments to prove his theory. First he starts with showing two scenarios, a person winning the lottery and one who is a paraplegic and asks people to choose which scenario they would rather be in. Almost all picked the lottery winner, but after a year has passed, both lottery winner and paraplegic showed the same levels of happiness. Then he proceeds to show examples of people who synthesize happiness, for example a man who was essentially cut from the Beatles crew and says that he is way happier than he would have been with them.
ReplyDelete1. Evolution
ReplyDelete2. Experience simulators
3. Synthetic Happiness
4. Natural Happiness
5. Irreversible condition to synthesis of happiness
Mr. Gilbert presentations was expressed in Middle Style. He was laid back in a sense that he wore blue jeans, implemented jokes, and used four letter words yet he was very professional by using statistics, research, and poetry.
We believe Mr. Gilberts main weakness is in his ability to talk to fast. Talking to fast will hinder the ability of his message to reach certain viewers.
Amy, Neisha, Michael
5 key points:
ReplyDelete1. Our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy.
2. Human beings are forever wrongly predicting what will make them happy.
3. Synthetic Happiness vs. Natural Happiness.
4. The unanticipated joy of being totally stuck.
5. Tragically truth.
He was talking to fast and distraction on the stage were some of his weakness.
5 Key points:
ReplyDelete1. Evolution of the human brain – Form of the frontal cortex
2. Impact biases – Tendency for the simulator to overestimate
3. Happiness –Synthetic and Natural Happiness
4. Freedom to choose – enemy of synthetic happiness
5. Ambitions – if it’s unbounded we are free spirited. If bounded we are cautious.
Weakness: Distractions on stage