I had to read chapter 11 of the textbook, and this chapter had to do with "emotions and motivation." The thing that I found most interesting in this chapter is the section of forecasting happiness. According to this section, we are all fairly poor at predicting our happiness. According to the theory of forecasting happiness, we tend to overestimate the impact of events on our moods long-term (Lilienfeld, 426). The most remarkable thing about this section, is that ther have been studies that show when people become paraplegic, their baseline level of happiness return to normal after a few months. Adversely, when someone wins the jackpot for the lottery, their happiness shoots sky high immediately after they win. But then a couple months later, their baseline happiness returns to normal, as well. This all relates to the "hedonic treadmill" hypothesis (Lilienfeld, 427). This is the idea that we all adjust to our baseline level of happiness and unhappiness. So, in the end, this section of the chapter talked about how one cannot accurately forecast happiness, and that our baseline levels of happiness and unhappiness can adjust very quickly. 
Forecasting Happiness
This topic easily catches my attention. I have always wondered how our emotions are regulated and how they are affected by exciting or depressing experiences that we go through. It is really interesting to learn that our emotions are pretty much streamlined throughout our life and incline or decline as something good or bad happens. Your statement goes to show that no matter how much money you have or how famous you are, your happiness can only reach a certain point and than plateau.
It's interesting how the chapter claims that we cannot predict when we are going to be happy. The reason i say this is because often when an event turns out better than I expected, I am happy. Therefore, by knowing that I will be happy if I am surprised by something such a good grade. I feel i can predict happiness. This now keeps me interested to read the whole chapter and listen to the authors elaborate on the topic
I find this really interesting because although I admit, I haven't read the chapter yet, I HAVE seen this hour long lecture on youtube about synthetic happiness in which it goes into these very concepts. It really proves that what goes on in your head and how you deal with emotions and such is more within your head than as a result of external environment, which is kind of mind boggling to think that paraplegia would not result in any more negativity than winning the lottery in the long run. It also demonstrates our natural tendencies to adapt to the world around us.
This is a very interesting concept. I find it hard to believe we can't predict our own happiness. I can usually forecast my week ahead of me and tell myself "okay, on Monday I'm going to be stressed so I probably want to play basketball to change my mood" I don't know this chapter too well yet, but I'm interested to see the experiments that we're done to prove this and what evidence they have.
It is an really interesting topic. When we feel happy, most of the time, it is because we are controlled by our brain, it transfer our emotion which is happy to the facial appearance. This just explain the reason why sometimes we can't control ourselves from crying or laughing when we feel very sad or very happy.