this will ring true but you will fight it nonetheless. no one will remember the duration. of your life, the duration of their time with you, or even the duration of a vacation. daniel kahnemann has aged pyro to prove and succeeded for better or worse at determining what really matters. we do not remember experiences. we remember peak moments and we tend to only remember moments at the end of a prototypical experience. see, we don’t have the memory capacity to remember an entire experience. this is why you must do something wonderful and dramatic at the end of every prototypical experience. people will not remember your life of happiness and joy. they will only remember that you died of cancer and suffered the last year of your life.