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Stumbling on Happiness
This episode reveals how our brains systematically mispredict what will make us happy, offering a clearer path to genuine contentment.
“This episode reveals how our brains systematically mispredict what will make us happy, offering a clearer path to genuine contentment.”
— Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
Happiness, Cognitive Bias, Decision Science
If you often find yourself planning your life around an imagined future happiness that never quite arrives, this can help you understand why your predictions often miss the mark.
Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, draws on decades of rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience to reveal the surprising, often counter-intuitive, ways our minds construct and misinterpret future happiness.