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2.4 – Happiness = Color
Happiness is not a goal but the emotional hue of one’s unfolding life story. It emerges from coherence between one’s actions, values, and memories,not from isolated moments of pleasure. It colors the narrative we tell ourselves about who we are and how we live.
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2.3 – Stories as Memory Frames
Humans store facts in a contextual frame. The typical context is the story. For looking back, the story is the main level of memory, and details are coerced or neglected for everything to fit. In looking at the past, everything needs to make sense as part of a story.
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2.2 – Prison of Perception
Individuals perceive only partial, filtered versions of reality—shaped by attention, interests, and bias. Perception captures only a limited slice of reality determined by active senses, then further filtered for internal consistency and relevance. The resulting construct is accepted as truth, with little awareness that others may perceive the same situation entirely differently.
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2.1 – Weak Memory Fidelity
Humans distinguish situations accurately in the moment but retain only simplified or distorted memory traces. We are skilled at focusing and perceiving nuance, yet unable to preserve the full experience. Each situation leaves only a faint cognitive imprint that gradually fades over time.
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