| Dan Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness" |
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| Written by Rita Thompson | ||||||
| Tuesday, 20 June 2006 | ||||||
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For those who want to live happier than they are now, "Stumbling
on Happiness" presents some new insights and slants on the research. This
is the latest book of Dan Gilbert, a renowned Harvard psychologist.
Dan believes that happiness is a good feeling. It comes from creating more and more small positive events in your life which bring more cumulative happiness than one larger event, like a trip to Paris. Happiness also comes from the frequency and intensity of direct experience. Transcendent moments create high peaks of happiness. To learn from experience you must remember it. What we think about what happens to us is our control over our lives.Thus happiness is an inside job of which 50% is genetically determined. He differs from Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman when he emphasizes more of the pleasure than engagement and meaning. Both psychologists believe you can increase your happiness. {moscomment}
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