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Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
For more on Dan Gilbert’s ideas on “synthesizing happiness” watch his TED Talk, “The Surprising Science of Happiness,” http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy and read Stumbling on Happiness (New York: Knopf, 2006).
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: For Fans of Atomic Habits
Harvard University social psychologist Daniel Gilbert gave hundreds of people the opportunity to pick a free poster from a selection of art prints . Then he divided the participants into two groups. The first group was told that they had a month in which they could exchange their poster for any other one; the second group was told that the decision... See more
Gavin O'Hara • The Optionality Fallacy
Instead, this is a book that describes what science has to tell us about how and how well the human brain can imagine its own future, and about how and how well it can predict which of those futures it will most enjoy.
Daniel Todd Gilbert • Stumbling on Happiness
As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an “anticipation machine,” and “making future” is the most important thing it does.
Daniel Todd Gilbert • Stumbling on Happiness
The psychologist Daniel Gilbert, widely known as the author of Stumbling to Happiness, once wrote an essay, titled “How Mental Systems Believe,” in which he developed a theory of believing and unbelieving that he traced to the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Gilbert proposed that understanding a statement must begin with an attempt
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Gilbert argues that we’re bedeviled by a “fundamental misconception about the power of time” and a dangerous misconception known as “the end of history illusion” — at any point along our personal journey, we tend to believe that who we are at that moment is the final destination of our becoming. Which, of course, is not only wrong but a source of m... See more
Maria Popova • The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
Curiosity is the truth and the way of creative living.