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	Dan Gilbert on our ability to make choices

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10-21-2009 5:36 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b5e4780-87e8-44b9-bdf8-0447ed18f842/BBB5F129-1F44-4290-B545-81832A26E6CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ted.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html"><A class="transcriptLink" href="#">Bernoulli's gift, Bernoulli's little formula, allows us, it tells us</A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">how we should think in a world for which nature never designed us.</A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">That explains why we are so bad at using it, but it also explains </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">why it is so terribly important that we become good, fast.  </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">We are the only species on this planet </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">that has ever held its own fate in its hands.  </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">We have no significant predators,</A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">we're the masters of our physical environment; </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">the things that normally cause species to become extinct </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">are no longer any threat to us.  </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">The only thing -- the only thing -- that can destroy us and doom us </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">are our own decisions.  </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">If we're not here in 10,000 years, it's going to be because </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">we could not take advantage of the gift given to us </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">by a young Dutch fellow in 1738, </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">because we underestimated the odds of our future pains </A> <A class="transcriptLink" href="#">and overestimated the value of our present pleasures.</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BBB5F129-1F44-4290-B545-81832A26E6CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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