Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think - Couverture rigide

Dolan, Paul

 
9781594632433: Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
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ISBN 10 : 159463243X ISBN 13 : 9781594632433
Editeur : Avery, 2014

Synopsis

This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over time and it depends on what we actually pay attention to. Using what Dolan calls deciding, designing, and doing, we can overcome the biases that make us miserable and redesign our environments to make it easier to experience happiness, fulfilment, and even health.  With uncanny wit and keen perception, Dolan reveals what we can do to find our unique optimal balance of pleasure and purpose, offering practical advice on how to organize our lives in happiness-promoting ways and fresh insights into how we feel, including why:

• Having kids reduces pleasure but gives us a massive dose of purpose
• Gaining weight won’t necessarily make us unhappier, but being too ambitious might
• A quiet neighborhood is more important than a big house

Vividly rendering intriguing research and lively anecdotal evidence, Happiness by Design offers an absorbing, thought-provoking, new paradigm for readers of Stumbling on Happiness and The How of Happiness.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Dolan, PhD, is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behavior, and public policy. He is currently Professor of Behavioral Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been a visiting research scholar at Princeton University with Professor Daniel Kahneman. Among various other roles, he advises the National Academy of Sciences on measurement issues in happiness research. He lives in Brighton, UK with his wife and two children.

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Éditeur
Avery
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
159463243X
ISBN 13 
9781594632433
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780141977539: Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0141977531 ISBN 13 :  9780141977539
Editeur : Penguin, 2015
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