Session presented at Ignite Portugal #12,@LxFactory http://igniteportugal.clix.pt/2011/05/13-ignite-portugal-lisboa-lxfactory.html (Versão Portuguesa:http://www.slideshare.net/rquintino/de-histrias-mal-contadas)

2. Are you watching closely? Source: Edward H. Adelson. http://bit.ly/jUOdJx

3. That’s amazing! isn’t it? Source: Edward H. Adelson. http://bit.ly/jUOdJx

4. How many F s can you find? Source: Michael C. Kearl http://bit.ly/jmhO8G

5. How many F s can you find? Source: Michael C. Kearl http://bit.ly/jmhO8G

6. Yes, that’s right, they’re 6 ! Source: Michael C. Kearl http://bit.ly/jmhO8G

7. " Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision." ~ Dean Hawkes

8. "The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants." ~ Daniel Gilbert, “Stumbling on Happiness”

11. Success Luxury Car Self image Ego Sex Being right Big house by the sea Money Lots of Money Shopping Travel The Lottery! Vacations Happiness?

12. " If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. ~ W. Béran Wolfe

13. … pause slide… 

14. OK… But, can we use this perception-reality “gap” to our advantage?

15. … Be suspicious…

16. … Think less, “see” more…

17. " The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life , which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run." ~ Henry Thoreau

18. Happiness = Perception(Reality) - Expectations ~ Tom Magliozzi (adapted  )

19. Not everything it what it seems… Take a chance! Fact is, you may be wrong! Try yourself at ignite! 