Stumbling On Happiness

Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 0007183135
Pages : 71 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Stumbling on Happiness written by Daniel Gilbert and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

by Daniel Todd Gilbert

Publisher : Knopf
Release Date : 2006
ISBN :
Pages : 312 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book Stumbling on Happiness written by Daniel Todd Gilbert and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty reflection on human nature describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.

Stumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Gilbert

Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2006-05-02
ISBN : 9780307265302
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (265 users)

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Download or read book Stumbling on Happiness written by Daniel Gilbert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bringing to life scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, this witty, accessible book reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. • Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? • Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? • Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they really want? • Why do pigeons seem to have such excellent aim; why can’t we remember one song while listening to another; and why does the line at the grocery store always slow down the moment we join it? In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.

Summary of Stumbling on Happiness

Publisher : MIndBuilders Summaries
Release Date : 101-01-01
ISBN :
Pages : 11 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book Summary of Stumbling on Happiness written by and published by MIndBuilders Summaries. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Gilbert, a famous Harvard psychologist, explores the flaws of imagination and foresight illusions that drive each of us to misconstrue our future and overestimate our satisfactions. Gilbert explores why we seem to understand so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become, with wit and aplomb. This funny, approachable title brings scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics to life, revealing what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to foresee the future, as well as our ability to forecast how much we will enjoy it when we reach it. Disclaimer: This is a summary of the book, not the original book, and contains opinions about the book. It is not affiliated in any way with the original author.

The Happiness Equation

by Nick Powdthavee

Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2010-08-05
ISBN : 1848312245
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (848 users)

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Download or read book The Happiness Equation written by Nick Powdthavee and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is marriage worth £200,000 a year? Why will having children make you unhappy? Why does happiness from winning the lottery take two years to arrive? Why does time heal the pain of divorce or the death of a loved one – but not unemployment? Everybody wants to be happy. But how much happiness – precisely – will each life choice bring? Should I get married? Am I really going to feel happy about the career that I picked? How can we decide not only which choice is better for us, but how much it’s better for us? The result of new, unique research, The Happiness Equation brings to a general readership for the first time the new science of happiness economics. It describes how we can measure emotional reactions to different life experiences and present them in ways we can relate to. How, for instance, monetary values can be put on things that can’t be bought or sold in the market – such as marriage, friendship, even death – so that we can objectively rank them in order of preference. It also explains why some things matter more to our happiness than others (like why seeing friends is worth more than a Ferrari) while others are worth almost nothing (like sunny weather). Nick Powdthavee – whose work on happiness has been discussed on both the Undercover Economist and Freakanomics blogs – brings cutting-edge research on how we value our happiness to a general audience, with a style that wears its learning lightly and is a joy to read.

Happiness Formula

Publisher : Authentic happiness formula
Release Date :
ISBN :
Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Happiness Formula written by and published by Authentic happiness formula. This book was released on with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Metrics of Happiness

by R. Allan Freeze

Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-09-25
ISBN : 3031109139
Pages : 334 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (31 users)

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Download or read book The Metrics of Happiness written by R. Allan Freeze and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive treatment of how happiness and wellbeing are measured. It presents an accessible summary of the philosophy, methodology, and applicability of the various measurement techniques that have been generated by the leaders of the happiness movement. It traces the history of development of the core ideas, and clarifies the unexpectedly wide range of techniques that are used. The book provides an unbiased assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and differentiates the contributions that have been made by psychologists, economists, environmentalists, and health scientists. It examines applications at a personal scale, in the workplace, at a societal scale, and on the world stage. It does so in an easy-to-read anecdotal writing style that will appeal to a wide range of academic and lay readers who enjoy popularized non-fiction that address matters of social concern.

The Happiness Problem

by Wren-Lewis, Sam

Publisher : Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-11-08
ISBN : 1447353560
Pages : 232 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (447 users)

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Download or read book The Happiness Problem written by Wren-Lewis, Sam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We appear to have more control over our lives than ever before. If we could get things right – the perfect job, relationship, family, body and mind – then we’d be happy. With enough economic growth and technological innovation, we could cure all societal ills. The Happiness Problem shows that this way of thinking is too simplistic and can even be harmful: no matter how much progress we make, we will still be vulnerable to disappointment, loss and suffering. The things we do to make us happy are merely the tip of the iceberg. Sam Wren-Lewis offers an alternative process that acknowledges insecurity and embraces uncertainty. Drawing on our psychological capacities for curiosity and compassion, he proposes that we can connect with, and gain a deeper understanding of, the personal and social challenges that define our time

J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture

by Andrew Gibson

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-11
ISBN : 0192599798
Pages : 289 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (192 users)

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Download or read book J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture written by Andrew Gibson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa and Australia, Coetzee writes from a `global-Southern' perspective. Drawing on a wealth of literature, philosophy, and theory, this book reads Coetzee's writings as a discreet, oblique but devastating engagement with neoliberal presumptions. It identifies and focuses on various key features of neoliberal culture: its obsession with self-enrichment, mastery, growth; its belief in plenitude, endless resources; its hubris and obsession with (self)-promotion; its desire for ease and easiness, `well-being', euphoria; its fetishization of managerial reason and the culture of security; its unrelenting positivity, its belief in illusory goods and trivial progressivisms. By contrast, Coetzee's writings explore the virtues of irony and self-reduction. He commits himself to difficulty, discomfort, patient and austere, if bleak, inquiry, rigorous questioning, and radical doubt. Destitution and failure come to look like a serious, dignified form of life and thought. The very tones of Coetzee's books run counter to those of our neoliberal democracies. They point in a different direction to an age that has gone astray.

The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness

by Brent A. Strawn

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-15
ISBN : 0199795738
Pages : 449 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (199 users)

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Download or read book The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Brent A. Strawn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of the social sciences have devoted more and more attention of late to the concept of human happiness, mainly from sociological and psychological perspectives. This volume, which includes essays from scholars of the New Testament, the Old Testament, systematic theology, practical theology, and counseling psychology, poses a new and exciting question: what is happiness according to the Bible? Informed by developments in positive psychology, The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness explores representations of happiness throughout the Bible and demonstrates the ways in which these representations affect both religious and secular understandings of happiness. In addition to the twelve essays, the book contains a framing introduction and epilogue, as well as an appendix of all the terms used in reference to happiness in the Bible. The resulting volume, the first of its kind, is a highly useful and remarkably comprehensive resource for the study of happiness in the Bible and beyond.

Happiness is Easy and Scientific

by Denny JA

Publisher : Cerah Budaya Indonesia
Release Date : 2017-05-01
ISBN : 6236346003
Pages : 300 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (236 users)

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Download or read book Happiness is Easy and Scientific written by Denny JA and published by Cerah Budaya Indonesia. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an eagle to be able to soar far into the sky, it begins with the first flap of its wings. To begin a new life, intention and commitment are enough for the first flap. No matter what social or economic position, education, gender, race, ethnicity you are now; whatever ideology and religion you embrace, you can begin a happy and meaningful life. What’s important is to start with the first flap of a wing; tighten your intention, discipline yourself in a commitment to live in the Five Habits and Mindsets of Happiness. This is truly an extraordinary era. Even if there is no major achievement, even if there is no great accomplishment, we can still live happy and meaningful lives easily and scientifically. Imagine if that is accompanied with achievements and accomplishments.

Exploring Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Well-Being

by Erik M. Gregory

Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2016-10-03
ISBN : 1610699408
Pages : 277 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (61 users)

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Download or read book Exploring Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Well-Being written by Erik M. Gregory and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for an introduction to positive psychology that offers real-life examples? This overview of the science of happiness supplies case studies from some of the world's most successful organizations and describes ways to experience the personal impact of this exciting scientific field. Grounded in academics but accessible to a wide range of readers Challenges the reader to engage in the material and examine the application of positive psychology across multiple domains Provides an extensive bibliography with references to books, journal articles, popular press articles, and websites Includes examples of how media and technology can promote happiness and well-being Provides practical and applied knowledge in the field that can be used in one's daily life

Happier Hour

by Cassie Holmes

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-09-06
ISBN : 1982148802
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (982 users)

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Download or read book Happier Hour written by Cassie Holmes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling. Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor.” Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer? Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to: - Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices - Sidestep distractions - Create and savor moments of joy - Design your schedule with purpose - Look back on your years without regrets Enlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour “is filled with loads and loads of practical, evidence-based advice for how to live better by investing in what really matters. It’s the kind of book that can change your life for the better” (Laurie Santos, Yale professor and host of The Happiness Lab podcast).

How To Be Happier

by Paul Jenner

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-01-29
ISBN : 1444129120
Pages : 172 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (444 users)

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Download or read book How To Be Happier written by Paul Jenner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How happy are you? How To Be Happier encourages you to answer this question - honestly! - and suggests practical steps you can take to lead a more fulfilling and contented life. Banish the thoughts that make you unhappy and accept all the positive parts of who you are; learn the principles of happy eating and exercise your way to a healthier lifestyle; meditate for inner happiness; and practise great sex to boost your happy chemicals. With tips and anecdotes and a happiness plan to help you put into practice what you have learned, this book is an enjoyable way to reach what you have always strived for. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of how to achieve happiness. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Live Happier The Ultimate Life Skill

by Barrie Hopson

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date :
ISBN : 1300067438
Pages : 342 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Live Happier The Ultimate Life Skill written by Barrie Hopson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Executive and the Elephant

by Richard L. Daft

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-07-06
ISBN : 9780470636688
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (636 users)

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Download or read book The Executive and the Elephant written by Richard L. Daft and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little (if any) understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the intentional vs. the habitual mind to explain how this phenomenon occurs. Based on current research and real-life examples Offers leaders a method for directing themselves more productively Written by an expert in leadership, organizational performance, and change management Through real-life examples and recent studies in psychology, management and Eastern spirituality Daft provides guidance to all of us who struggle finding our own balance and cultivating the behavior of others.

Emotion Online

by J. Garde-Hansen

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-28
ISBN : 1137312874
Pages : 236 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (137 users)

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Download or read book Emotion Online written by J. Garde-Hansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling through theories of emotion and affect, this book addresses the key ways in which media studies can be brought to bear upon everyday encounters with online cultures and practices. The book takes stock of where we are emotionally with regard to the Internet in the context of other screen media.