Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Written by Paul Dolan
Narrated by Jonathan Cowley
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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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dolan provides the practical capstone to all of the latest happiness research. Despite the classical debate between meaning and hedonism, people can actually derive happiness from both purpose and pleasure. The relative importance of these depends also on the person, so it's helpful to get intentional and aware about it. Much of happiness is driven by what we choose to focus on. Maximizing happiness is a function of deciding, designing, and doing happiness.