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, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly 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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Daniel Gilbert is Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, i ncluding the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Self, Men's Health, Redbook, Glamour, Psychology Today, and many others. His short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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評分 評分 評分 評分如果明天你接到一個電話:通知你中瞭1000萬元大奬,你猜你會是什麼感覺?大多數人可能會說:我會因為這一好運而高興上很長一段時間。 如果明天你接到一個電話:通知你被學校退學,或被公司解雇。你又會有何感受?大多數人可能會覺得:自己會因此而消沉上很長一段時間。 Gilber...
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评分不是個人喜歡的話題,可是幽默的筆觸和深刻的見解,確實是一本不可多得的好書
评分不是個人喜歡的話題,可是幽默的筆觸和深刻的見解,確實是一本不可多得的好書
评分不是個人喜歡的話題,可是幽默的筆觸和深刻的見解,確實是一本不可多得的好書
评分人要先快樂 學習工作效率纔高 = =
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