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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9781400077427
ISBN: 1400077427
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2007-03-20
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 2007-03-20
Studio: Vintage
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• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink?
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In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to misconceive our tomorrows and misestimate our satisfactions. Vividly bringing to life the latest scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.
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Summary: Ir's basically a list of experiments
Comment: I bought this book because I wanted to know how I could become happy. However, this book turned out to be a long list of psychological experiments that proved how badly human imagination and memories are flawed and follible. Yet the author concludes that nothing is better than our imagination and memories to depend on to predict our future happiness.
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Summary: Interesting pop-psychology
Comment: Daniel Gilbert takes us through the elusive study of happiness in three phases.
1) He convinces the reader how nearly impossible it is to measure happiness, along with all the falicies of attempts to measure it. He concludes "The best you can do is ask someone how they're feeling at any given moment"
2) He shows many problems with individuals predicting happiness. We tend to overestimate how much we enjoy things, and how long the happiness lasts, as well as overestimating pain from negative occurances. He shows why this happens (one reason is too much focus on recent events) as well as how our memory fails us similar to imagination.
3) He closes with a tentative recommendation on what to do - in general it is not good to ask for advice, but it is relatively reliable to ask people how they are feeling at any given point in time.
The subject is soft and squishy, but Daniel Ong manages to create a book that is readable, enjoyable, and even useful. Well done, and well worth the time!
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Summary: stumbling on hapiness
Comment: Excellent book!good quality!absolutely no difference with a new one.shipped on time to my house.its just so wonderful
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Summary: Listen to the audio book
Comment: This is a brilliant book by a writer who also happens to have an exceptional wit. For those few negative reviews (and for everyone else) I strongly recommend the unabridged audio book. Listening to Professor Gilbert read his own work is a "happy" experience. It's the best college lecture you'll ever hear.
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Summary: Enjoyable read
Comment: This is a great fun book, and a thorough study on human behavior. Among many of the wonderful discoveries of the author regarding how we experience happiness, I was particularly taken by his remarks on emotional experiences (feelings) based on present information and emotional experiences originated in memory (pre-feelings) and how the mind without awareness is able to mix them up and is not able to differentiate them and bring them to the present. What an eye-opener, and that is only 1 example, the book is filled with great insights.
The moments of awareness I had while reading his book reminded me of two of my favorite authors Ariel and Shya Kane whose books on living in the present Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: A Book About Instantaneous Transformation Being Here: Modern Day Tales of Enlightenment are excellent guides to experience well-being now regardless of the past and therefore transform an ordinary life into a full vibrant life with awareness. They masterfully support people into staying with what is moment to moment, which in turn eliminates stress and opens a universe of possibilities.
I highly recommend both Gilbert and the Kanes!
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