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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stumbling on Happiness about?

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us why we're so lousy at predicting what will make us happy -- and what we can do about it.Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward. Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn't gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off?Smart, witty, accessi

Who reads Stumbling on Happiness?

Author

Daniel Todd Gilbert

Publisher

Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780676978582

Category

health

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences

Rating

3.82 / 5 (189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14