Can You Predict Happiness?

While searching www.digg.com (which by the way is an awesome site which aggregates articles which are somewhat off the beaten path) I came across a Time magazine article with the title of this post. You can find the article here http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1714473,00.html

Now, the validity of the idea of whether one can predict their own happiness or not is mildly interesting to me. What is really interesting however is the idea that Time magazine is open to the idea that ones individual thoughts have a role to play in their reality. And that there is validity to the idea and benefit of living in the moment. In other words, thought is offered as a creative force for an individuals experience.

Daniel Gilbert, author and Harvard psychology professor said in the article, "The kinds of comparisons we're making when we're imagining the future aren't the kinds we make when we get there." Powerful ideas to be sure. But even more powerful is that fact that Time magazine is exploring them.