Name: Stumbling on Happiness
ISBN: 9780007330683

Daniel Todd Gilbert

In this fascinating and often hilarious work – winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 – pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how – and why – the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.

Stumbling on Happiness

Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? Why do patients remember long medical procedures as less painful than short ones? Why do home sellers demand prices they wouldn't dream of paying if they were home buyers? Why does the line at the grocery store always slow down when we join it? In this book, Harvard psychologist Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. Using the latest research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what we have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there, and why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.--From publisher description.

Stumbling on happiness

Yuval Shoshan

Gavin

Warning: Probably hasn't borne the replication crisis well.

Keven Wang

I did not finish it. The writing style is not for me

Daniel Friis

Michael Friess

Daniel Gilbert is a Harvard psychologist and writes about what conclusions we can draw about our imagination of happyness and how to find it from scientific research in psychology, cognitive science, behavioural economics and philosophy. Wrapped up in brilliant, witty writing, using laymen terms and excellently structured.

Detailed review: http://michael.friess.org/review/2007...

Bryce Thornton

Interesting book about why we make the decisions we make and how they are fundamentally flawed. It doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, except to say that asking others who are in the same situation is a good way to judge how happy that decision will make you. I'll try to keep this in mind as I make big decisions in life.

Luca Conti

Uno dei saggi più divertenti e stimolanti che abbia letto quest'anno. L'audiobook letto dall'autore è ancora più divertente

I.m. ruzz

Interesting ideas on memory and how we project our minds into the future, but a bit overloaded with studies and references to studies. Despite his wit, it gets long in the tooth.

Stumbling on Happiness

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