That has been my feeling too. I have completed soo many personal projects (or improvements) that were collecting dust on my 'mental shelf'.
Without AI I would probably never get to them because realistically, I do not have dozens, or hundreds of personal hours to devote to fun, but unnecessary projects.
Interesting, and I have also finished live football games thinking it would have been better to just watch it on TV at home.
However, his claim that a spectator would "automatically reframe what she saw into the way it would appear on television" is never supported other than him saying "trust me, it's true, if you don't believe me you are in the minority".
I think that depends on how you interpret "happiness to become one’s default state of mind."
I think feeling happy is my default. I still get mad, hurt, sad, bored, etc. But when those feelings wear away, I return to a general state of happy contentment.