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  A comment on Talk: Bobby McFerrin plays... the audience!

  Apr 29 2012: I want a whole concert played that way!
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

  Aug 5 2010: Dear Colleen,
  Thank you for your encouragement, it always helps when it arrives from a experieced person, I hope I can make the best use of your advice!
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

  Aug 4 2010: Dear Colleen,
  It does make sense! But you're a lucky person, not everyone is able to always find "the bright side of life" on a logical level like you do! :)
  Perhaps I'm not.
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

  Aug 3 2010: TED doesn't allow me to reply to your other message so I write here, with the hope that the discussion will remain comprehensible.
  
  Dear Colleen,
  Maybe I've finally got your point: you mean that we have some kind of control on our own happiness, something like "the life smiles back at you if you smile". I'm afraid I'm much more pessimistic. I don't think we can fight against the chemicals released in our brains. It would be like trying to act normal when you're drunk I guess. If your brain doesn't want you to be happy you can't do nothing about it (at least on a pshycological level).
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

  Jul 27 2010: The sad thing, in my opinion, is that human beings are constantly looking for eternal happiness and we won't ever be able to find it as long as our brains are made to forbid it, in order to make the human race survive as long as possible.
  
  Sorry if maybe I didn't understand what you wanted to say, my english isn't so good yet. :)

• A comment on Talk: Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

  Jul 2 2010: What about bugs? And how could it be kept hot during winter? Would it be storm-proof?
  
  Meat houses are scaring.
  
  I think growing homes would be a great possibility, but it has so many problems to deal with...
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  A comment on Talk: Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

  Jul 2 2010: Dan Gilbert's theory of happiness sounds very sad to me. It's the evidence that we do not have any reason to live except reproduction. Even the changes in our mood have the purpose to make us survive the longer we can: if we are too happy, we become satisfied with ourselves and we don't engage in what we do, so our brain doesn't allow us to be happy forever, but if we are too sad we become apathetic and we don't care about improving ourselves lives, so, like Dan explained, our brain synthesize happiness to let us work properly. We are nothing but animals.