Happiness by design Change what you do, not how you think
Book - 2014
"Pretty much all the advice about happiness we have heard revolves around one basic assumption: that we can think ourselves happier. But in HAPPINESS BY DESIGN, behavior and happiness expert Paul Dolan reveals that the key to being happy does not lie in changing how we think--it's changing what we do"--
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- Published
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New York, New York :
Hudson Street Press
2014.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xx, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-227) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781594632433
- Foreword
- A note to the reader
- A little warm-up
- Introduction: stuttering into happiness
- Part 1. Developing Happiness
- 1. What is happiness?
- Happiness as evaluation
- Happiness as feelings
- The pleasure-purpose principle
- The PPP for life
- 2. What do we know about happiness?
- Experience sampling
- German days
- American episodes
- Other evidence on happiness
- The measure matters
- 3. What causes happiness?
- From widgets to happiness
- Above and below the surface
- Behavioral spillovers
- The shifting sands of attention
- Attending to happiness
- 4. Why aren't we happier?
- Mistaken desires
- Mistaken projections
- Mistaken beliefs
- Reallocating attention
- Part 2. Delivering Happiness
- 5. Deciding happiness
- Pay attention to your own feedback
- Pay attention to the feedback of others
- Don't try too hard
- Happier by deciding
- 6. Designing happiness
- Priming
- Defaults
- Commitments
- Social norms
- Designing habits
- Happier by designing
- 7. Doing happiness
- Pay attention to what you are doing
- Pay attention to who you are doing it with
- Don't get distracted
- Happier by doing
- 8. Decide, design, and do
- Dither less
- Distribute more
- Efficient production
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index