{"id":64410,"date":"2022-04-06T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=64410"},"modified":"2022-04-15T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T21:18:45","slug":"make-bad-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/make-bad-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 3 Reasons Why People Make Bad Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do people continue to make bad choices despite tons of advice on how to avoid them? How does your fabricated reality lead you to make poor decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Gilbert, the author of <em>Stumbling on Happiness, <\/em>has a theory about why this happens. Gilbert believes that your brain fabricates beliefs about your past, present, and future that don&#8217;t always align with reality. Gilbert&#8217;s theory is that this fabricated reality leads you to make decisions about the future that aren\u2019t conducive to happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the reasons people make bad choices, according to social psychologist Daniel Gilbert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-you-aren-t-aware-you-re-fabricating-your-reality\">1. <strong>You Aren\u2019t Aware You\u2019re Fabricating Your Reality<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Though you always supplement memories with assumed information, interpret events in the present positively, and imagine improbable futures, you don\u2019t <em>recognize<\/em> you do this, says Gilbert. <strong>You believe you see, remember, and imagine the world exactly as it is<\/strong> and that your memories, experience of the present, and imaginings of the future are therefore objectively correct.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: According to Gilbert, you fabricate your entire reality but <em>believe<\/em> <em>incorrectly<\/em> that you perceive it objectively. However, this view may be too extreme: Sometimes, you <em>do<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/perception-of-the-world\/\">perceive the world<\/a> objectively. For instance, when you touch a rose, you don\u2019t fabricate your reality of being in pain\u2014you experience the pain objectively. On the other hand, when your friend fails to smile at you and you\u2019re immediately certain they\u2019re mad at you, you\u2019re fabricating your reality to a higher degree.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-your-lack-of-awareness-makes-you-happier-now\">2. <strong>Your Lack of Awareness Makes You Happier Now<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your lack of awareness that you\u2019re constantly fabricating your reality is in some ways good, writes Gilbert, because <strong>it lets you enjoy a \u201cblissfully ignorant\u201d happiness in the <\/strong><strong><em>present<\/em><\/strong>. As we\u2019ve shown, your brain goes to great lengths to ensure you\u2019re as happy as possible now: As we discussed, it uses five techniques to interpret events in the present to reflect well on you, and it creates fabricated visions of the future because doing so is pleasurable and the perceived control over your life makes you happy. Gilbert contends that if you saw through this positive interpretation of the present and recognized that your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/vision-for-the-future\/\">vision of the future<\/a> was fundamentally incorrect, you wouldn\u2019t be as happy as often.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Being Happier While Also Being Aware<\/strong><br><br>Gilbert says your present happiness results from ignorance that you\u2019re fabricating your reality. However, not everyone agrees that happiness in the current moment need merely be the result of ignorance. You can and should <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-power-of-positive-thinking\/part-2-1\">actively <em>choose<\/em> to be happy in the present<\/a> as often as you can, argues Norman Vincent Peale in <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-power-of-positive-thinking\"><em>The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><br><br>Do this by <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-power-of-positive-thinking\/part-2-1#the-happiness-habit\">making a habit of being happy through your thoughts, actions, and lifestyle<\/a>: Think and behave in ways known to create happiness. For instance, keep your mind free from worry, help others, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-simplify-your-life\/\">live simply<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-your-lack-of-awareness-leads-to-poor-choices-about-what-to-do-in-the-future\">3. <strong>Your Lack of Awareness Leads to Poor Choices About What to Do in the Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, continues Gilbert, your happiness rooted in blissful ignorance isn\u2019t permanent. Your lack of awareness that you\u2019re fabricating your reality means you use fabricated, inaccurate memories and experiences to inform your choices about the future. Because these choices are based on falsehoods and overly optimistic imaginings, <strong>they often lead you to make bad choices, which do <em>not <\/em>make you happy<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, based on a memory of a short hike you took and <em>think<\/em> you enjoyed, you fabricate a vague vision of yourself in five years in which you\u2019re climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and enjoying it. This vague and fabricated vision informs your decision to begin training for the climb. However, it turns out this decision makes you miserable because you hate physical exertion. In fact, you hated the physical exertion of your initial short hike, but strategically omitted that negative detail when calling on your memories to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-vision\/\">create your vision<\/a> of the Kilimanjaro climb. The choice to climb Kilimanjaro ultimately becomes a poor one because of these delusional imaginings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Why Don\u2019t All Choices Make Us Happy?<\/strong><br><br>Over the last few chapters, we\u2019ve seen that our brains are wired to keep us as happy as possible as often as possible. This raises the question: If our minds are hard-wired to make us deludedly happy no matter what, why does Gilbert believe that certain decisions about the future make us <em>unhappy<\/em>? Shouldn\u2019t our positive, fabricated interpretation of the world kick in to allow us to be happy even if we make \u201cwrong,\u201d unhappiness-producing choices about the future, as Gilbert describes above?&nbsp;<br><br>We might explain this by saying that certain choices about the future prevent us from using one or more of our previously described happiness-maintaining techniques. For instance, if you join a group of people training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, you\u2019re no longer surrounding yourself with friends who bolster your belief that climbing the mountain will be fun and easy. Instead, you\u2019re surrounded by experienced people who tell you that the climb will be incredibly difficult\u2014and this erodes your happiness as a result of your choice.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people continue to make bad choices despite tons of advice on how to avoid them? How does your fabricated reality lead you to make poor decisions? Daniel Gilbert, the author of Stumbling on Happiness, has a theory about why this happens. Gilbert believes that your brain fabricates beliefs about your past, present, and future that don&#8217;t always align with reality. Gilbert&#8217;s theory is that this fabricated reality leads you to make decisions about the future that aren\u2019t conducive to happiness. 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