Bummed about the Acquisition?

Tomorrows Often Look Very Different When They Become Our Yesterdays.

Maybe the situation you’re experiencing now feels undesirable and difficult. And maybe you expect the acquisition to damage your future. But one of these days you’re likely to see all this in a very different light.

Human beings actually aren’t very good at forecasting how they’ll feel about things later on. As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert puts it in his book, Stumbling on Happiness, “Our imagination has a hard time telling us how we will think about the future when we get there.” And why do we predict so poorly? It’s because our predictions about how we’ll feel in the future are heavily influenced by our current emotions and state of mind. So if you’re feeling bad about what’s happening now, that will give you a negative bias about things to come.

It’s just our nature to try to do things or create conditions that we’re convinced can make us happy. Likewise, we try hard to avoid situations which we believe would be painful or difficult to endure. Meanwhile, research proves over and over . . .