Daniel Kahneman has a nice TED talk about the distinction between experienced and remembered happiness: http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_

Daniel Kahneman has a nice TED talk about the distinction between experienced and remembered happiness: http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_exper... It's probably not a very good idea to always put experienced happiness above remembered happiness, though.