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Loading... Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Lifeby Paul Dolan
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was an interesting read. He asks questions at the beginning of every chapter like: 'Would you rather be highly educated but miserable most of the time, or have little education but be happy most of the time?' The problem is, life is never so simple, and one aspect of life never guarantees happiness itself. That is the major problem of this book. You can have a look at the common myths about happiness for fun, but what really determines whether someone is happy or not is the sum of all of life's parts. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Get a good education, be successful, get married, have kids and look after your health. This is what we're told will make us happy. But what if these stories are doing more harm than good? In Happy Ever After, bestselling happiness expert Professor Paul Dolan draws on groundbreaking research and data to bust the common myths about happiness and show that the path to fulfilment is actually far more unexpected than we thought. With straight-talking wisdom, he invites us to reappraise our values, free our minds from the 'narrative traps' of conventional wisdom and write our own version of the good life, based on maximising positive, meaningful experiences that can generate new social benefits - not least greater tolerance for different ways of life. Happiness isn't what you're told. It's what you do. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)152.42Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Emotions And Senses Emotions Happiness [No Longer Used]LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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