Stumbling on Happiness
We are reliably wrong about what will make us happy, and the imagination doing the predicting never admits it.
Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, shows how badly humans predict what will make them happy. Imagination fills gaps without telling us, discounts how thoroughly we adapt, and systematically misjudges future feeling. Funny throughout, and unsettling in its conclusion that the person planning your life is a poor forecaster of the person who will live it.
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Derek Sivers
Not at all new-agey, as the title might suggest. Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for years, and shares factual findings that will change the way you look at the world.
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