• 2.4 – Happiness = Color

    Happiness is not a goal — it is the emotional tint of one’s life story.

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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—colored by interests and biases—yet often treat these as absolute truth. Humans are victims of their perception. That is, the individual perceives only a portion of “reality” that corresponds to his or her currently active sense organs. This perception is further filtered by consistency and colored by interests.

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  • 2.1 – Weak Memory Fidelity

    Humans differentiate situations well in the moment, but retain only simplified or distorted memory images. Humans are good at focusing and differentiating situations, but they cannot store them. Only a faint memory image remains of each situation, and it fades more and more over time.

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