Happy Ever After : Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life

Dolan, Paul

ISBN 10: 014198449X / ISBN 13: 9780141984490

Edité par Penguin Books, Limited, 2020

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• Titre: Happy Ever After : Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life
• Éditeur: Penguin Books, Limited
• Date de parution: 2020
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 014198449X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780141984490
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women

Be ambitious; find everlasting love; look after your health ... There are countless stories about how we ought to live our lives. These narratives can make our lives easier, and they might sometimes make us happier too. But they can also trap us and those around us.

In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on a variety of studies ranging over wellbeing, inequality and discrimination to bust the common myths about our sources of happiness. He shows that there can be many unexpected paths to lasting fulfilment. Some of these might involve not going into higher education, choosing not to marry, rewarding acts rooted in self-interest and caring a little less about living forever.

By freeing ourselves from the myth of the perfect life, we might each find a life worth living.

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Dolan is Professor of Behavioural Science at the LSE. He is an internationally renowned expert in human behaviour and happiness. Amongst various other roles, he wrote the questions that are being used to monitor national happiness in the UK and has advised many governments, charities and corporations on how to influence behaviour to improve wellbeing. His debut book, Happiness by Design, was a Sunday Times bestseller and dubbed 'the book that will make you quit your job'.