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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
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
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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
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
“Human beings,” social psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, “are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished,” says Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert, whose study subjects said they’d changed hugely in the years prior but insisted they were done and in the future wouldn’t change anymore.