Daniel Gilbert is Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, i ncluding the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Self, Men's Health, Redbook, Glamour, Psychology Today, and many others. His short stories have appeared in Amazing Stories and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as other magazines and anthologies. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes to show us wh y we’re so lousy at predicting what will make us happy – and what we can do about it.
Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had expected. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward.
Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was. Among the unexpected questions he poses: Why are conjoined twins no less happy than the general population? When you go out to eat, is it better to order your favourite dish every time, or to try something new? If Ingrid Bergman hadn’t gotten on the plane at the end of Casablanca, would she and Bogey have been better off?
Smart, witty, accessible and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human ability to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.
这本《哈佛幸福课》是中信出版社的一位编辑送我的,送的时候没跟我说写评论的事。前几天我看完了这本书,看的时候写了一点读书笔记,于是便据此写了下面这篇可能有些跑题的书评。 这本书原来曾以《撞上快乐》这样一个书名出过一版,可能第一版卖得不太理想,于是改了书名又出了...
评分这本书似乎没有登上过什么国内的排行榜,看过后觉得翻译的很别扭,包括名字也给人一些误导(虽然是直译)。不过从书的内容来看客观的说是一本值得一看的书。这本书从比较科学严谨的实验数据来证实人思维方式上的误差,而这些误差往往导致人对未来的判断不是消极就是恐惧...
评分这本《哈佛幸福课》是中信出版社的一位编辑送我的,送的时候没跟我说写评论的事。前几天我看完了这本书,看的时候写了一点读书笔记,于是便据此写了下面这篇可能有些跑题的书评。 这本书原来曾以《撞上快乐》这样一个书名出过一版,可能第一版卖得不太理想,于是改了书名又出了...
评分 评分1998年,一位法国人设计了一个既复杂又别开生面的自杀计划。首先,他站在高高悬崖上,脖子套上索套,绳子末端固定在大石头上。然后,他喝下毒药,并开始自焚。他还觉不够喉,从悬崖跳下时,朝着自己脑袋开了一枪。可子弹并没有打中目标,反而打断了绳索。因此,他直接掉到海里...
人要先快乐 学习工作效率才高 = =
评分不是个人喜欢的话题,可是幽默的笔触和深刻的见解,确实是一本不可多得的好书
评分不是个人喜欢的话题,可是幽默的笔触和深刻的见解,确实是一本不可多得的好书
评分人要先快乐 学习工作效率才高 = =
评分不是个人喜欢的话题,可是幽默的笔触和深刻的见解,确实是一本不可多得的好书
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