As the happiness researchers Tim Wilson and Daniel Gilbert have put it, "People routinely mispredict how much pleasure or displeasure future events will bring."

“快乐”的研究人员蒂姆·威尔逊和丹尼尔·吉尔伯特说道：人们会习惯性地去预测未来发生的事件会带来多少快乐或不幸，而这些预测通常都是错误的。