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Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

This is a very useful perspective because on happiness because it suggests that how we think about ourselves effects our memory. Obvious, perhaps. And he is a great speaker.

Everything you know is wrong - Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

Vulnerability

This little talk from TED is very potent and suggests that even the most stubborn of us can find value in self exploration, being vulnerable and remaining open. And to add a researched perspective is of great value as well. It is a simple talk and has pathos, bathos and life.

The World as I see it

What an extraordinary situation is that of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he feels it. But from the point of view of daily life, without going deeper, we exist for our fellow-men--in the first place for those on whose smiles and welfare all our happiness depends, and next for all those unknown to us personally with whose destinies we are bound up by the tie of sympathy.