I recently watched this TED Talk by Daniel Kahneman – he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics.

The key takeaway for me was the disconnect between ‘experience’ and ‘memory’. This got me thinking about all sorts of contexts, from own happiness to the implications for evaluating behaviour change. At the TED website they describe his presentation as …

“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.“

After I watched the presentation, I sat down to write this blog post and struggled to document what I was thinking. This post was destined to live a long life in the ‘draft’ folder … then I emailed the link to Irene Guijt (Evaluation Revisited Conference) … who passed it onto Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge) … and then Dave wrote this post – Between Memory & Experience. Dave writes …

“Seeing the future as anticipated memories is an interesting side idea from the talk. Now there is nothing new here (although its well presented) but its an important reminder in relationship to issues of narrative research.”

Here’s the video – see what connections you can make between the findings and the real world.

I recently watched this TED Talk by Daniel Kahneman – he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics.

The key takeaway for me was the disconnect between ‘experience’ and ‘memory’. This got me thinking about all sorts of contexts, from own happiness to the implications for evaluating behaviour change. At the TED website they describe his presentation as …

“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.“

After I watched the presentation, I sat down to write this blog post and struggled to document what I was thinking. This post was destined to live a long life in the ‘draft’ folder … then I emailed the link to Irene Guijt (Evaluation Revisited Conference) … who passed it onto Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge) … and then Dave wrote this post – Between Memory & Experience. Dave writes …

“Seeing the future as anticipated memories is an interesting side idea from the talk. Now there is nothing new here (although its well presented) but its an important reminder in relationship to issues of narrative research.”

Here’s the video – see what connections you can make between the findings and the real world.

I recently watched this TED Talk by Daniel Kahneman – he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in behavioral economics.

The key takeaway for me was the disconnect between ‘experience’ and ‘memory’. This got me thinking about all sorts of contexts, from own happiness to the implications for evaluating behaviour change. At the TED website they describe his presentation as …

“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.“

After I watched the presentation, I sat down to write this blog post and struggled to document what I was thinking. This post was destined to live a long life in the ‘draft’ folder … then I emailed the link to Irene Guijt (Evaluation Revisited Conference) … who passed it onto Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge) … and then Dave wrote this post – Between Memory & Experience. Dave writes …

“Seeing the future as anticipated memories is an interesting side idea from the talk. Now there is nothing new here (although its well presented) but its an important reminder in relationship to issues of narrative research.”

Here’s the video – see what connections you can make between the findings and the real world.